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XML Tag Counter

Create a program that counts the number of tags in a simple XML structure represented as a string. The XML may contain nested tags. Your program should read a string from the input and output the total number of unique tags found. Ensure to ignore nested tags for counting and only account for the outermost tags. Example Input: <root><tag1><tag2></tag2></tag1><tag3></tag3></root> Example Output: 3

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recursiontreestring manipulation

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