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

If you want to parse XML log file so you can do with regex {java}, <[^<]+<.so you get DEV. Output like name>DEV. You have to just play with REGEX.