Xml special character

I have an XML formated document from an external apps that I
cannot change looking like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<row>
<charge>3</charge>
<duration>5</duration>
<fdomain>1</fdomain>
<from>"Allibaba"<sip:[email protected]>;tag=169e3f2c</from>
<fuser><fuser />
<start>1167420888.001000</start>
<tdomain>1</tdomain>
<to>"John Blaire"
<sip:4162595623@localhost></to>
<tuser>80</tuser>
</row>
Reading and outputing this XML is giving me :
3
5
1
"Allibaba";tag=169e3f2c
1167420888.001000
1
"John Blaire"
80
Wen I would like to get:
3
5
1
"Allibaba" 18002633394
1167420888.001000
1
"John Blaire" 4162595623
80
The Parsing is removing <> but in 2 case I need to
extract the number followed by <sip: and before @ and remove all
the rest
Is this possible and how?

Before you process the xml, strip it
<cfset regXML =
"\<sip\:[0-9]*\@sip\.\host\.ca\>\;tag\=[A-Za-z0-9]*">
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