I am trying to use regular expression to parse an xml string. I cannot seem to figure out how to take into account attributes that may be in the inital tag. Can someone please help me?

use strict;
my $xml=<<ENDOFXML;
<shirt size="14"> ... stuff... </tag>
<hat name="red" size="7"> ...more stuff... </hat>
<shoe> ...shoe stuff... </shoe>
ENDOFXML

while($xml=~m/\<(.+?)\>(.+?)\<\/\1\>/sig){
    my $tag=lc(strip($1));
    my $attribs="?";
    my $value=strip($2);
    print "Tag: $tag\n";
    print "\tattributes: $attribs\n";
    print "\tvalue: $value\n";
    }
print "Done\n";
exit;
###############
sub strip{
    #usage: $str=strip($str);
    #info: strips off beginning and endings returns, newlines, tabs, a
+nd spaces
    my $str=shift;
    if(length($str)==0){return;}
    $str=~s/^[\r\n\s\t]+//s;
    $str=~s/[\r\n\s\t]+$//s;
    return $str;
    }
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