# FMX - How to ignore html tags when parsing xml document

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-how-to-ignore-html-tags-when-parsing-xml-document/56508
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 5, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-how-to-ignore-html-tags-when-parsing-xml-document/56508 "2004-07-05T14:02:42Z")
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### Author: ![borispc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@borispc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/borispc)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/fmx-how-to-ignore-html-tags-when-parsing-xml-document/56508/1 "2004-07-05T14:02:42Z")

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Hello!

I am having trouble parsing an xml document because the nodes contain text that has html tags. When I parse it in flash, it considers that the html tags are new nodes. How do you avoid this?

Everything loads into a variable: mainNode=xml document. And then it’s parsed.

Some nodes look something like:  
\<property\>\<description\>my name is \<b\>boris\</b\> and I like flash\</description\>\</property\>

The problem is that any text in html tags (\<i\>,\<b\>,\<u\>,etc) is broken into a different node.

Any help welcome.