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>"

Answer 2

Replace < with &lt;

<string name="myHeadStr">&lt;b>&lt;u>bold, underline &lt;/u>&lt;/b></string> 

Then, when retrieving:

Html.fromHtml(getResources().getString(R.string.myHeadStr)); 

This is the prescribed way of doing in android documentation. Read the paragraph titled: "Styling with HTML markup" in this link: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html