# XML returning plain text instead of HTML

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-returning-plain-text-instead-of-html/87525
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 21, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-returning-plain-text-instead-of-html/87525 "2005-04-21T18:13:40Z")
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### Author: ![sedgemonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@sedgemonkey](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sedgemonkey)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2005, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-returning-plain-text-instead-of-html/87525/1 "2005-04-21T18:13:40Z")

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I have an XML file I’m loading up for using in various tasks and I don’t want XML to automatically encode the XML data to HTML. Is there any way I can stop this?

Example…

“John’s Class” loads as “John&apost;s Class”. I want “John’s Class” to remain as it is.