Getting rid of HTML tags in a String

Today I found a post which proposes a simple trick based on regular expressions to get rid of all HTML tags from a String:

String noHTMLString = htmlString.replaceAll("\\<.*?>","");

All excited, and test-infected, I hurried to write a simple test:

@Test
public void testMinoreMaggiore() {
String instance = "<a href="...">3 è minore( < ) di 4 e maggiore ( > ) di 1</a>";
String expResult = "3 è minore ( < ) di 4 e maggiore ( > ) di 1";
String result = instance.replaceAll("\\<.*?>","");
assertEquals(expResult, result);
}

Not unexpectedly, the test failed. I couldn't help posting it to the author, hoping he won't see me as an insufferable know-it-all but as a mere proofreader...