How to remove XML tags from Unix command line?

Question

I am grepping an XML File, which gives me output like this:

data
more data
...

Note, this is a fl

Answer 1

I know this is not a "perlgolf contest", but I used to use this trick.

Set Record Separator for < or >, then print only odd lines:

awk -vRS='<|>' NR%2 file.xml