regular expression HTML extraction help

[microair]

I have a String var, which contains HTML content, what i want to do is match any abc
and extract xyz and abc from the tag. Now i want to save this for all the <a href> in the HTML page.
I tried doing it with the following but it doesn't work.

            pattern = Pattern.compile("href=(?:\"|\')?.*(?:\"|\')?(>)?.*(</a>)?");
            matcher = pattern.matcher(pageContents);

            if(matcher.find())
                    pageContents2 = matcher.replaceAll("$1 $2"); 

Please advice and guide.