How to remove XML tags within a field of attribute table?

Question

I have this dataset I got it from Wikimapia ,containing bunch of fields . One of fields named "PopupInfo" contains xml tags :

and looks like this when in editing mode :

I want to remove these tags and keep the text between them . is there tool or script can do this .

Answer 1

You can use the Field Calculator to do a regex substitution on the PopupInfo field, like this:

The pre-logic function is:

import re

def RemoveTags(MyString):
    return re.sub('<.*?>', '',  MyString)