How can I make my java program see a string as html?

[Matthew J]

I am using a string obtained from a form in a pdfwriter, althoguh sometime the info in the form is html. I need the pdf writer to display it as html rather than a string.
How can I do this?

thanks,
Matt
I'm trying to take the contents of a form (stored as a string) and write a pdf.
The pdf is physically writing the html code with all the tags etc.
I need the pdf to display the results of the html code (if that makes sense).
So I somehow need to tell it to take the input string and read it as html.