I would reevaluate your strategy considering those seemingly simple regexes could actually be quite nasty.

For example, what is the start of an html tag? Is it '<'? What is the close? Is it '>'? The answer to both questions is not always:

$html_tag = '<img src="img.png" alt="peg leg > with a kickstand">';
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Is a single valid html tag. To accurately describe and manipulate html with regular expressions, one would want something like:

my $x = SOME_HTML;

while($x =~ /\G(.*?)(<(?:"[^"]*"|'[^']*'|[^'">])*>)/gcs){
   do_something_with_text($1);
   do_something_with_tag($2);
}
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Which could be packaged as an iterator.