# Radius: accessing raw tag body without expanding

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-accessing-raw-tag-body-without-expanding/117085>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [October 12, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-accessing-raw-tag-body-without-expanding/117085 "2007-10-12T20:09:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Aitor\_Garay-Romero](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@Aitor\_Garay-Romero](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Aitor_Garay-Romero)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-accessing-raw-tag-body-without-expanding/117085/1 "2007-10-12T20:09:28Z")

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Hi there!,

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Is there an easy way for a Radius tag to get the "raw" tag body 

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without  
expanding the contained tags?

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It's not what i need, but it's the functionality to implement an

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imaginary \<r:literal\> tag:

```
<r:literal>
    <r:link>
</r:literal>

that returns "<r:link>" instead of "<a href=...>...</a>".

/AITOR
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**Author:** ![Aitor\_Garay-Romero](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/ac8455/32.png) [@Aitor\_Garay-Romero](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Aitor_Garay-Romero)\
**Post date:** [October 12, 2007, 11:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/radius-accessing-raw-tag-body-without-expanding/117085/2 "2007-10-12T23:13:46Z")

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Aitor,

I’ve wanted this in the past too. I think it’s a limitation of how  
Radius parsing works that we don’t have this feature currently. John,  
please correct me if I’m off-base here.

Sean