XML Parser reading html tags

Placebo

[PHP]<post>
<regular-title>this is another test</regular-title>
<regular-body><b>oh my lols</b></regular-body>
</post>
[/PHP]

[PHP]<?php
$insideitem = false;
$tag = "";
$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";

function startElement($parser, $name, $attrs) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {
$tag = $name;
} elseif ($name == "POST") {
$insideitem = true;
}
}

function endElement($parser, $name) {
global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($name == "POST") {


echo $title."<br>";
echo $description;

$title = "";
$description = "";
$link = "";
$insideitem = false;
}
}

function characterData($parser, $data) {

global $insideitem, $tag, $title, $description, $link;
if ($insideitem) {

switch ($tag) {
case "REGULAR-BODY":
$description .=$data;
break;

case "REGULAR-TITLE":
$title .= $data;
break;

}
}
}

$xml_parser = xml_parser_create();

xml_set_element_handler($xml_parser, "startElement", "endElement");
xml_set_character_data_handler($xml_parser, "characterData");


$fp = fopen("my.xml","r")
or die("Error reading RSS data.");
while ($data = fread($fp, 4096))

xml_parse($xml_parser, $data, feof($fp))
or die(sprintf("XML error: %s at line %d",
xml_error_string(xml_get_error_code($xml_parser)),
xml_get_current_line_number($xml_parser)));
fclose($fp);
xml_parser_free($xml_parser);

?>[/PHP]


case "REGULAR-TITLE":
works

case "REGULAR-BODY":
doesnt

its because of the <b> tag
i tried using htmlentities but wont work
cant use SIMPLEXMLLOAD because hosting only has php4 :mad: