Title: Stripping html + encoded html
Last modified: October 5, 2019
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# Stripping html + encoded html
* Resolved [logicred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logicred/)
* (@logicred)
* [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stripping-html-encoded-html/)
* My xml contains this:
*
<SPAN lang=EN-GB> <P dir=ltr align=left>This
property is now available
* I want to strip all the HTML, or just insert it as HTML. I have tried creating
functions to strip (which work in an external test PHP script):
* $stripped = html_entity_decode($thehtml);
$stripped = strip_tags($stripped);
* … but the functions are not returning the stirpped code. Any pointers?
Thanks
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* Plugin Author [WP All Import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpallimport/)
* (@wpallimport)
* [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stripping-html-encoded-html/#post-12010300)
* Hi [@logicred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logicred/)
* You could use this option to import it as HTML: [https://d.pr/i/fAkpaN](https://d.pr/i/fAkpaN).
Or, use something like this to strip the tags (see: [http://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/developers/execute-php/](http://www.wpallimport.com/documentation/developers/execute-php/)):
* `[strip_tags({HTMLEncodedWebText[1]})]`
* If neither of those options work, please open a ticket at [http://www.wpallimport.com/support/](http://www.wpallimport.com/support/)
and include your actual import file so we can see what’s going on.
* Thread Starter [logicred](https://wordpress.org/support/users/logicred/)
* (@logicred)
* [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stripping-html-encoded-html/#post-12012269)
* Thanks all, just posted a support ticket.
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* Last activity: [6 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stripping-html-encoded-html/#post-12012269)
* Status: resolved