title: Best way to provide formatting to news articles stored in databases
body: <p>I am working on a news web page and I will like to know what are the best practices for storing the news articles into the database. The problem is that if I store the news articles in pure text I lose the ability to insert links or provide any HTML formatting to the news's body when I show them on the page. On the other side, I've seen that storing it already formatted in HTML or XML or any other formatting language could couple the database info to an HTML environment.</p>
  
  <p>So, is there any way to accomplish this? I've been thinking in store the news both ways into the database. Is there any better approach to solve this problem?</p>
  
  <p>I am using php (Symfony2 being more specific) and if the markup language are the way to do this, which one do you recommend?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance</p>