getData help and CVS module names?

[Paul / U. <pa...@tr...>]

I have some xml data like the following: (where you see [ and ] these are really < and > so they don't get confused with html tags :)

[root] 
  [en]
    some text with [b] bold [b] inside it
  [/en]
[root] 

What I want it to pull out ALL the contents of the [en] node including all the bold tags etc.
getData only gets :  some text with inside it  (looses the stuff in the bold tags)
getDataParts returns an array with 
[0]=>some text with 
[1]=> inside it
substringData returns the same as getData

How can I get all the tags properly within the [en] node.
I've tried doing a exportAsHTML on the [en] node and substring the [en] and [/en] but that is a horrible way to do it.

Also, I've seen talk of the ampersand problem being fixed in the exportAsXML - so I'm trying to get the latest version from anonymous CVS - but don't know what the module names are to get. Trying to list the module names with -c results in nothing?

Thanks for your time and help

Paul Lawton