Java regex to strip out XML tags, but not tag contents

Question

I have the following Java code:

str = str.replaceAll(\"<.*?>.*?|<.*?/>\", \"\");

This turns a String like so:

Answer 1

You can try this too:

str = str.replaceAll("<.*?>", "");

Please have a look at the below example for better understanding:

public class StringUtils {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println(StringUtils.replaceAll("How now brown cow."));
        System.out.println(StringUtils.replaceAll("How now brown cow."));
    }

    public static String replaceAll(String strInput) {
        return strInput.replaceAll("<.*?>", "");
    }
}

Output:

How now brown cow.
How now brown cow.