<root>
      <x>290</x>
      <y>204</y>
      <width>420</width>
      <height>70</height>
        <htmlText>
                 <TEXTFORMAT LEADING="7">
                 <P ALIGN="CENTER">
                 <FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="12" COLOR="#333333" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">
                 SOME TEXT
                 <A HREF="mailto:some@email.com" TARGET="">
                 <U>some@email.com</U>
                 </A> SOME TEXT
                 </FONT>
                 </P>
                 </TEXTFORMAT>
                 </htmlText>
    </root>

<?php include("functions_modules.php");
$module = new modules; $xmlcode = '<root>
<x>290</x>
<y>204</y>
<width>420</width>
<height>70</height>
<htmlText>
<TEXTFORMAT LEADING="7">
<P ALIGN="CENTER">
<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE="12" COLOR="#333333" LETTERSPACING="0" KERNING="0">
SOME TEXT
<A HREF="mailto:some@email.com" TARGET="">
<U>some@email.com</U>
</A>
SOME TEXT
</FONT></P>
</TEXTFORMAT>
</htmlText>
</root>';
echo $module->moduleText($xmlcode); ?>

SOME TEXT
SOME TEXT
<a href="mailto:some@email.com">some@email.com</a>

<?php
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement("xml_file_path", NULL, True);
$tags = $xml->xpath('//a');  //use xpath on the XML to find the a tags

foreach($tags as $tag){
    echo $image['href'] ;  //here is the a tag src
}
?>