Unescape HTML entities in Javascript?

Question

I have some Javascript code that communicates with an XML-RPC backend. The XML-RPC returns strings of the form:

Answer 1

Chris answer is nice & elegant but it fails if value is undefined. Just simple improvement makes it solid:

function htmlDecode(value) {
   return (typeof value === 'undefined') ? '' : $('
').html(value).text();
}