How to find/replace text in html while preserving html tags/structure

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Published on 2009-12-06T17:44:58Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 9:04 UTC
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I use regexps to transform text as I want, but I want to preserve the HTML tags. e.g. if I want to replace "stack overflow" with "stack underflow", this should work as expected: if the input is stack <sometag>overflow</sometag>, I must obtain stack <sometag>underflow</sometag> (i.e. the string substitution is done, but the tags are still there...

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