Android Html.fromHtml() loses the HTML if it starts with <p> tag

i call a web service that returns some HTML which enclosed in an XML envelop... something like:

<xml version="1.0" cache="false">
     <text color="white">
         <p> Some text <br /> <p>
     </text>
 </xml>
 

I use XmlPullParser to parse this XML/HTML. To get the text in element, i do the following:

case XmlPullParser.START_TAG:
 
     xmlNodeName = parser.getName();
 
     if (xmlNodeName.equalsIgnoreCase("text")) {
         String color = parser.getAttributeValue(null, "color");
         String text = parser.nextText();
 
         if (color.equalsIgnoreCase("white")) {
 
             detail.setDetail(Html.fromHtml(text).toString());
 
         }
     }
 break;
 

This works well and gets the text or html in element even if it contains some html tags.

Issue arises when the element's data starts with <p> tag as in above example. in this case the data is lost and text is empty.

How can i resolve this?

EDIT

Thanks to Nik & rajesh for pointing out that my service's response is actually not a valid XML & element not closed properly. But i have no control over the service so i cannot edit whats returned. I wonder if there is something like HTML Agility that can parse any type of malformed HTML or can at least get whats in html tags .. like inside <text> ... </text> in my case?? That would also be good.

OR anything else that i can use to parse what i get from the service will be good as long as its decently implementable.

Excuse me for my bad english

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