Regex Find/Replace in Notepad++ including new lines

Question

Need to replace/remove multiple occurrences in notepad++ using regex. Here is an example:

....
somethingtext to be removed or replaced
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Answer 1

One way to do this find/replace:

Find what: (<item>).*?(<\/item>)\R?

Replace with: $1$2

Check the Matches new line checkbox.

More information: Notepad++ User Manual - Regular Expressions