XML : Remove XML Node, including children if present, via text editor

I'd like to remove a tag/node entirely (including children) in notepad++ (or other FOSS text editor) that may/may not have children, and possibly grandchildren, etc... I've tried regular expressions (noted on a few other SO Questions) but having trouble with the multiline aspect of these nodes/tags.

  <exampleTag id="blah" name="bob">      <childTag possible="element" />      <moreChildren>          <evenAnotherLevel />      </moreChildren>  </exampleTag>    

It is funny that both textWrangler and notepad++ can collapse a node for easier reading:

Which makes it easy to delete the whole thing manually, but this won't work for a file with potentially 10000s or more of these tags. Is there a tool/plugin out there that can do this? Right now I break out node.js to get this done, but that isn't a solution for laymen.