def METHOD_NAME(self, item):
    parts = item.xpath(".//text()").extract()
    description = "".join([str(x) for x in parts])
    description = (
        description.replace("\xa0", " ")
        .replace("\n", " ")
        .replace("\t", " ")
        .strip()
    )
    description = re.sub(r"\s+", " ", description)
    return description