Retrieve HTML from XML doc

I hope this easy. I wrote a php code that save HTML tags inside XML file as below:

<DOC>
  <TITLE ID="96001">test</TITLE>
  <PAR ID="96002”>
<!—HTML tags here-- > 
</PAR>
  </DOC>

But the file appear like this

<DOC>
  <TITLE ID="96001">test</TITLE>
  <PAR ID="96002">&lt;ul&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&nbsp; &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;123456789&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&nbsp; &lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;987654321 &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&nbsp; &lt;li&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;BR&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;</PAR>
  </DOC>
 and when I print the content of the file it appear like this

<ul><BR>  <li><strong>123456789</strong></li><BR>  <li><strong>987654321 </strong></li><BR>  <li> </li><BR></ul>

which I want but not as a pure tags but I want it formatted like this

·      123456789
·      987654321

Can any one help me.
Thanks in advance