in reply to How do I remove newlines between nested different delimiters on different lines?

Ignoring the fact that /<[^>]*>/ is not a good regex to match HTML tags, this will do what you want: 
    s((<[^>]*>))(local($_=$1);tr;\n;;d;$_)eg;

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