I found that, thanks. It looks like it was designed for exactly what I needed, since it also recurses into subelements!

Can it (your split member) be directed to filter this recursion, e.g.

<P>it will find @this and <B>recurse 
to get @this</B> but should be told 
<literal>not to scan in @here</literal>.</P>
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But maybe I don't need to... there are other parser issues associated with things like <literal> and I'll bring it up on another thread.

—John