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TASK DESCRIPTION we have textlib.replaceExcept() which does replacements except for parts inside exceptions regexes.

It would be great to have ist opposite which does replacements inside given regexes or tags only

TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T97893

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