Regular expression to match closing HTML tags

Question

I\'m working on a small Python script to clean up HTML documents. It works by accepting a list of tags to KEEP and then parsing through the HTML code trashing tags that are

Answer 1

]*>(.*?) 

Matches the opening and closing pair of a specific HTML tag.

<([A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)\b[^>]*>(.*?)

Will match the opening and closing pair of any HTML tag.

See here.