Parse Album Art from xml

Question

I am trying to create a music player that reads an rss feed. The xml elements include itunes namespace tags. I am trying to display the album art from the feed. I am able to fetch the contents of the itunes::image tag but it displays on stage as html like so "(http://www.mysite.com/images/multimedia/podcasts/60x60%5Fpodrods.jpg)". How do I get the image to render and not the html. The code for the image is this:

myImg.htmlText = rssXML.channel.item[evt.target.selectedIndex].itunes::image;

please advise