Get content between a pair of HTML tags using Bash

Question

I need to get the HTML contents between a pair of given tags using a bash script. As an example, having the HTML code below:

Answer 1

plain text processing is not good for html/xml parsing. I hope this could give you some idea:

kent$  xmllint --xpath "//body" f.html 

 text
  

  text2
    

        text3