HSSF: Html to Text conversion

[xtech]

Hi,
I am storing text with html tags in DB and want to fetch them back in excel sheet as text with styles (which i am gaving through html tags), but i am getting the text with tags itself ,not in formated form ,i am using HSSF for this, how can i get the formatted text without tags.

I am getting the text in this format in excel sheet
<b><i>Comments on Intiative</i></b>

but i want text in the below format
Comments on Intiative

How can i do that ? Please reply soon.

[sukatoa]

What is your idea on java about this? will you implement it in java?

regards,
sukatoa