I'm looking for a s///g construct to transform lines like: 
    [_CELL_]This is a sentence on one line.
    [_CELL_] Cell 1  [_CELL_] Cell 2  [_CELL_] Cell 3
into: 
    <CELL>This is a sentence on one line.</CELL>
    <CELL>Cell 1</CELL><CELL>Cell 2</CELL><CELL>Cell 3</CELL>
and feeling dumb I can't think of one off the top of my head.

Bonus question: Does anyone recognize that format? All I know is it's probably produced by FrameMaker (buggily) and used by O'Reilly for book publishing. It also includes things like: 

    [_Body_] ... a paragraph on on line ...
    ... {_XRef#89948_} ...
    ... [_Fi_]something in italics[_F_] ...
etc. I don't like this format much (at all), so I'm trying to make a tool to convert it into XML and back. And I'd love to hear: "That's FMEZ format! Joe X has a great module for converting it!"

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