android string.xml reading html tags problem

Question

In Android project's strings.xml file i have following html text

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<resources>

<string name="myHeadStr"><b><u>bold, underline </u></b></string>
...

</resources>

When i read this into getString(R.string.myHeadStr) it gives only text "bold, underline" it forgets the html tags and ....

how to read complete string with html tags from string.xml

Answer 1

Use XML CDATA

<string name="demoStr"><Data><![CDATA[ <b>ABC</b> ]]> </Data></string>

getString() will be got "<b>ABC</b>"