My foo apparently isn't strong with respect to regular expression modifiers. The following code is meant to simply replace one child node for another, but I'm seeing that both child nodes are being replaced given that the end tag occurs in multiple locations. 
#!/usr/bin/perl

my $xml = "<root>\n\t<element attribute='foo'>\n\t\t<!-- -->\n\t</elem
+ent>\n\t<element attribute='bar'>\n\t\t<!-- -->\n\t</element>\n</root
+>";
print "before:\n";
print $xml, $/;

my $node = "\t<element attribute='new'>\n\t</element>\n";
print $node, $/;

my $name='foo';
$xml =~ s!\t<element attribute='$name'>.*</element>\n!$node!se;

print "after:\n";
print $xml, $/;

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What modifier am I missing here? Thanks.

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