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Can anyone tell me how to get sed to work with an OR pattern match? If I try the standard pipe character, the command fails. I found on Google to escape the pipe with a backslash. That command runs, but the pattern doesn't match.

Here's what I have that works (just one pattern):
sed 's|<Tag />|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path

This command runs but doesn't match either pattern:
sed 's|<Tag />\|<Tag></Tag>|<Tag>Value</Tag>|' file_path

TIA

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