# HippoHtml to String

**URL:** <https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippohtml-to-string/1456>\
**Category:** Experience Manager (PaaS/OnPrem)\
**Created:** [September 26, 2019, 11:10am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippohtml-to-string/1456 "2019-09-26T11:10:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bharat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bharat](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/Bharat)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 11:10am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippohtml-to-string/1456/1 "2019-09-26T11:10:30Z")

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Hi,

How can we convert the data from HippoHtml to String in Freemarker or Java?

\<@ hst.html hippohtml=document.html /\>

This gives the html content, but I want to fetch String data from the same RichTextEditor field.

Thanks,  
Bharat

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**Author:** ![jasper.floor](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.bloomreach.com/jasper.floor/32/28_2.png) [@jasper.floor](https://community.bloomreach.com/u/jasper.floor)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2019, 11:54am UTC](https://community.bloomreach.com/t/hippohtml-to-string/1456/2 "2019-09-26T11:54:48Z")

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The thing is, there is only html content. The rich text is represented by a node with a property that contains html. This html needs to be processed because internal links and such are determined render time. There is no plain string representation of that data.