Preserving anchor tags in BeautifulSoup

[graham23s]

Hi Guys,

After testing my code i found out the BeautifulSoup strips html tags when using: get_text()

i'm getting data from an .xml file:

xml_content_body = soup.find('taskBody')

This field contains text with anchor text in it, like:

word word word <a href="https://www.thesite.com/">work</a> word etc

Is there a way to keep the html tags instead of stripping them with get_text()?

# beautifulsoup setup
soup = BeautifulSoup(projects.text, 'xml')

# xml values
xml_content_body = soup.find('taskBody')

I cannot see a way to do this, any help would be appreciated guys!

regards

Graham