In XML, these two are equivalent: <foo>&lt;bar/&gt;</foo> and <foo><![CDATA[<bar/>]]></foo>. Thus the content of the <summary> tag is the "<p class="quicksummary"><a href="http://earthquake.usgs...". If you want to split that into pieces you have to pass that string to another HTML or XML parser. It's like a box that, apart from other things, contains another box so after you've opened the outer box, you have to extract the inner box and open it as well.

Jenda
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In reply to Re^3: One more parsing ATOM question by Jenda
in thread One more parsing ATOM question by mcoblentz

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