Strings with quotation marks that cant be accessed

Hello everyone...
I did search for my problem but most hits concerned other problems concering the quotation mark.
My problem is this:
Within a CMS, that allows .NET code to be executed I need to assign a variable to a cms-element. That cms-element contains text.
As long as it just plain text there's no problem. If the element contains an hyperlink for example the variable assignment will not work.
Is there anyway I can alter the cms-element with vb beforehand?
The idea is to remove all html code within the cms-element before the CMS exports the page to PDF...
Accessing and altering the cms-element itself is not possible in my case...
I hope I could explain the problem properly. If not, please ask.
Any hints, workarounds or thoughts will be deeply appreciated!
Philipp
no ideas?