There's a difference between want to get the details from this between the HTML tags and The value I need is between "> " and " <". The latter is trivial: />([^<]*)</g will do that. But consider:

a > 3 && b < 5
<img src = "..." alt = "a > 3 && b < 5">
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Three examples of valid HTML. Three example of cases you do not want the things between > and <.