in reply to Using a Regex to extract tagged content

davido gave the correct answer already, but here's a simple hack regexp that matches your particular example.

/<([a-zA-Z]+)(?:(?:\s+[^>]+)*|\s*)>([^<]*)<\/\1>/

This *will* break in a lot of cases, so if you can at all, use one of the modules that davido recommended, not a silly hack like this.