Displaying HTML code pulled from a database

Martin,

We were discussing the other day about reading/writing HTML code to  
databases. Well I just tested reading HTML inputed from a form,  
processed with o-xml and writing it to a database.

This is what I input:

  A story with a <a href="www.dirtyeye.com">link</a> to my website.  
Wonder If it works.

This is what gets stored in the DB:

+---------+---------------------+-----------+------------------------- 
+----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
----------------+
| item_id | pub_date            | posted_by | title                   |  
story                                                                    
               |
+---------+---------------------+-----------+------------------------- 
+----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
----------------+
|       8 | 2004-10-03 10:40:48 |         3 | A new story             |  
A story with a <a href="www.dirtyeye.com">link</a> to my website.  
Wonder If it works.
+---------+---------------------+-----------+------------------------- 
+----------------------------------------------------------------------- 
----------------+
8 rows in set (0.00 sec)

When I read the data back from the database I get this as the HTML  
output:

<p>A story with a &lt;a href="www.dirtyeye.com"&gt;link&lt;/a&gt; to my  
website. Wonder If it works.</p>

Is there anyway to output the proper HTML?

Also apart from  db:quote() are there any other functions that I can  
use in the DB extension to format input?

Thanks,
Glen