title: parsing rss description with Ruby Parser
body: <p>I am trying to parse a nytimes rss feed with Ruby's parser.  </p>
  
  <pre><code>nyt_url = 'http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/World.xml'
  open(nyt_url) do |rss|
    @nyt_feed = RSS::Parser.parse(rss)
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And in the view file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;h2&gt;New York Times Feed&lt;/h2&gt;
  &lt;% @nyt_feed.items.each do |item| %&gt;
    &lt;p&gt;
      &lt;%= link_to item.title, item.link %&gt;
      &lt;%= item.description %&gt;
    &lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;% end %&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But what I get out for the description looks something like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    Since air assaults by the Assad government picked up two weeks ago, 
  knocking rebels in the south on their heels, Syrians have been arriving
  at refuge camps in Jordan at a rate of about 2,000 a night.&lt;img width='1' height='1' 
  src='http://rss.nytimes.com/c/34625/f/642565/s/22f90a36/mf.gif' border='0'/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a 
  href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/139263791500/u/0/f/642565/c/34625/s/22f90a36/a2.htm"&gt;&lt;img 
  src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/139263791500/u/0/f/642565/c/34625/s/22f90a36/a2.img" 
  border="0"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img width="1" height="1" 
  src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/139263791500/u/0/f/642565/c/34625/s/22f90a36/a2t.img" 
  border="0"/&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I also have a similar situation with the Washington Post feed.  How do I get the images to actually display, or at least to get just the description part.  Do I have to handle this with regular expressions or is there some method on the parser object that I should be using?</p>