Regex for getting usable info out of typo3's crummy <link> tags

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typo3's link tags are formatted like this:
<link url target css-class title-attribute>Linktext</link>

to get all vital info, use this regex:
<link\s(\S+)[^"]*(?:"([^"]+)")?>([^<>]+)<\/link>

PHP to convert this to markdown and replace the wonderfully helpful default title:
$bodytext = preg_replace('/<link\s(\S+)[^"]*(?:"([^"]+)")?>([^<>]+)<\/link>/', "[$3]($1 \"$2\")", $this->bodytext);
$bodytext = preg_replace('/\[([^\[\]]+)\]\((\S+)\s{1}\\"Opens external link in new window\\"\)/', "[$1]($2 \"$1\")", $bodytext);
$this->bodytext = trim(html_entity_decode(strip_tags($bodytext)));