getting text out of an xml string

[JT]

On Mar 4, 9:30 pm, John Machin <sjmac... at lexicon.net> wrote:

> Your data has been FUABARred (the first A being for Almost) -- the
> "\u3c00" and "\u3e00" were once "<" and ">" respectively. You will

Hi John,

   I realized that a few minutes after posting.  I then realized that
I could just extract the text between the stuff with \u3c00 xml
preserve etc, which I did; it was good enough since it was a one-off
affair, I had to convert a to-do list from one program to another.
Thanks for replying and sorry for the noise :-)

      JT