RegEx Multiline result - Netbeans 7.2 find and replace feature - regex

Question

I'm using the "find" tool in Netbeans 7.2 and I'm looking to make regular expression that would allow me to gather results that have multiple lines.
A sample Html code I would like to apply the regular expression on :
<tr>
<td>
<label>some label</label><span>*</span>
</td>
<td>
<label>some label</label><span>*</span>
<label>some label</label>
<label>some label</label>
</td>
</tr>
Basically, I want to gather any <td> tag including it's content and it's end tag </td>.
In the above example, my first result should be :
<td>
<label>some label</label><span>*</span>
</td>
and my second result expected would be :
<td>
<label>some label</label><span>*</span>
<label>some label</label>
<label>some label</label>
</td>
I've tried many different regular expressions that would pick up the start of the <td> and the next line (if the <td>'s content is on more than one line).
Example :
<td>.*(.*\s*).*
But I'm looking to get a regular expression that can pick up every <td> tags and their content no matter how many <label> tags they hold.

Answer 1

You have to use use the s modifier to match new lines with a dot, I don't know where you can do this in NetBeans but you could begin your expression with (?s) to enable it.
So a regex to match <td ...> ... </td> would be something like this (?s)(<td[^>]*>.*?<\/td>).
Explanation:
(?s) : make the dot match also newlines
<td : match <td
[^>]* : match everything except > 0 or more times
> : match >
.*? : match everything 0 or more times ungreedy (until </td> found in this case)
<\/td> : should I even explain o_o ?
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