How to do regex HTML tag replace in SQL Server?

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Published on 2010-04-12T15:21:13Z Indexed on 2010/04/12 16:43 UTC
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I have a table in SQL Server 2005 with hundreds of rows with HTML content. Some of the content has HTML like:

<span class=heading-2>Directions</span>

where "Directions" changes depending on page name.

I need to change all the <span class=heading-2> and </span> tags to <h2> and </h2> tags.

I wrote this query to do content changes in the past, but it doesn't work for my current problem because of the ending HTML tag:

Update  ContentManager
Set ContentManager.Content = replace(Cast(ContentManager.Content AS NVARCHAR(Max)), 'old text', 'new text')

Does anyone know how I could accomplish the span to h2 replacing purely in T-SQL? Everything I found showed I would have to do CLR integration. Thanks!

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