What are the potential pitfalls of mixing HTML within JSON data when trying to extract specific information using PHP?

Mixing HTML within JSON data can make it challenging to extract specific information using PHP because the HTML tags can interfere with the JSON parsing process. To solve this issue, you can first decode the JSON data into an associative array using `json_decode()`, then access the specific information you need by traversing the array. 

$jsonData = '{"name": "John", "age": 30, "description": "<p>This is a description</p>"}';
$data = json_decode($jsonData, true);

$description = strip_tags($data['description']); // Extract description without HTML tags
echo $description;

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PHP JSON HTML parsing extraction

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