Html text results

[Marcel]

Hello, I am developing an iOS app that requires among other things books descriptions to be shown. I am using the books.show method with XML result. In the description part, however, there are a lot of HTML text code. For example, "The Silmarilion" description comes like this:

Designed to take fans of <em>The Hobbit</em> and <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> deeper into the myths and legends of Middle-Earth, <em>The Silmarillion</em> is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien's world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> (...)

Is this a bug or something I am doing wrong?

Thanks,

[Michael]

This is expected. you could either deal with the HTML, or scrub out .