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

This isn't elegant, but it is easy to follow. The below code removes the start and end XML tags if they are present in a line together

"www.xml.com"<\url> , "This is xml"<\body>

Regex :

to_replace='<\w*>|<\/\w*>',value=""