Flash, Servlets & MySQL: Collecting variables

Hi,
I have developed a Java Servlet that recieves variables from a Flash file. THe problem is the encoding, i need a way to either convert into the correct encoding for populating into a MySQL db or to extravt the value from the request. Sample code looks like this:
String name = req.getParameter("name");
but when populated into the database the HTML tags that make up the HTTP request are still there
ie <P ALIGN="LEFT"><FONT FACE="AR">Kevin Kilroy</FONT></P>
Thanks in advance
Kevin

best would be to strip the html tags in the flash file. But i don't know Flash, so i have no idea whether and how this can be done.
You need something like a html stripper. i never used something like this, but i remeber i read about this topic in the forum. There must be a class somewhere in the jdk that is designed to parse a hmtl file and 'grap' the values of the html elements and attributes. I guess this way you should be able get the values you like.
Do a search in the forum or in the jdk for HTML Parser - i guess you'll find what you need.

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From your code, some of the assumptions seems to appear :
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