When i was new with magento i was get lot of problem with this wysiwyg text parse. i try to do that manually with php code. But after move inside the magento core function i found that method how simply parse the variable for the wysiwyg text description or custom module text.
Magento has the simple
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$_cmsHelper = Mage::helper(‘cms’);
$_process = $_cmsHelper->getBlockTemplateProcessor();
echo $_process->filter($_product->getMyCustomAttribute()); //pass the variable which is use to display content of wysiwyg editor
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