title: HTML Formatted Cell value from Excel using Apache POI
body: <p>I am using apache POI to read an excel document. To say the least, it is able to serve my purpose as of now. But one thing where I am getting struck is extracting the value of cell as HTML.</p>
  
  <p>I have one cell wherein user will enter some string and apply some <b>formatting(like bullets/numbers/bold/italic) </b> etc. </p>
  
  <p>SO when I read it the content should be in <b>HTML</b> format and not a plain string format as given by POI.</p>
  
  <p>I have almost gone through the entire POI API but not able to find anyone. I want to remain the formatting of just one particular column and not the entire excel. By column I mean, the text which is entered in that column. I want that text as HTML text.</p>
  
  <p>Explored and used <b>Apache Tika</b> also. However as I understand it can only get me the text but not the formatting of the text.</p>
  
  <p>Please someone guide me. I am running out of options.</p>
  
  <p>Suppose I wrote My name is <strong>Angel</strong> and <em>Demon</em> in Excel.</p>
  
  <p>The output I should get in Java is <code>My name is &lt;b&gt;Angel&lt;/b&gt; and &lt;i&gt;Demon&lt;/i&gt;</code></p>