Matching two sections same number of times

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Hello, i need a HTML to parse:

<span>some text<span><span><span>text</span></span></span></span>

I need to remove unnecessary <span> occurrences, so that output is:

<span>some text<span>text</span></span>

I wrote a regex, which does this once:

/<SPAN>[^<]*<\/SPAN>/i

How to make this work same number of times on both <span> and </span>?

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