sed solaris 5.10 - regex

Question

Hi I am trying to write a script to parse some html files to make a job a bit easier, but I'm having no luck, I've tried reading other threads and manuals to no avail. I seem to get stuck with circular brackets.
I want to replace all appearances of:
$FORMTOP("2")$ with $FORMTOP("3")$
$WHITE*("5")$ with $WHITE*("10")$
</b> with </strong>
<tr><td with <tr> newline, tab <td
delete occurrences of <td></td>

Answer 1

In sed you will have to put a new line (put a "\" and hit enter) and tab spaces (press spacebar 8 times) manually in the replacement section.
[jaypal#MBP-13~/temp] sed 's/<tr><td/<tr>\
<td/g' test123
<tr>
<td
<tr>
<td

Answer 2

I can't say for certain that this will work on Solaris, as I don't have it available anymore, but I'm using Sun-Solaris std sed commands with nothing fancy, I think this should work.
{
cat <<-EOS
\$FORMTOP("2")$
\$WHITE*("5")$
</b>
<tr><td
EOS
} |sed '
s/\$FORMTOP("2")\$/\$FORMTOP("3")\$/g
s/\$WHITE\*("5")\$/\$WHITE\*("10")\$/g
s/<\/b>/\<\/strong>/g
/<tr><td/{
s/<td//
a\
<td
}
'
#output
$FORMTOP("3")$
$WHITE*("10")$
</strong>
<tr>
<td
For this testing harness, using { cat <<-EOS ... EOS }, I had to escape the '$' that where being interpreted as env vars by the shell. If you put the test data in a file, be sure to remove the '\'s in front of the '$'s.
EDIT Also, stuff that looks indented in sed, is indented with spaces except for the char just before your final <td.
Also, as you wrote 'I've tried reading other threads',you did find the S.O. number one post concerning fixing XML with sed, right?
I hope this helps.