#With $_ holding the HTML text...

#Pull comments.  Note that
# `<!-- foo="--> bar <--" -->' will NOT strip ` bar '.
# I claim this to be a feature.
s/<!--.*?-->//g;

#for comments like <blah blah="blah" blah='blah' ... >,
# strip from after the start of the tag  up to the end 
# of the first quoted string, repeatedly, ending in either
# `<>' or `<no quotes here>'
# Update: Now handles either quote char, with the other
#		possibly within the quoted string.
while (   s/<(?!--)[^'">]*"[^"]*"/</g 
       or s/<(?!--)[^'">]*'[^']*'/</g) {};


#strip HTML tags without quotes in them... which should be
# the only kind that we have left.
s/<(?!--)[^">]*>//g;
print $_;