Sharepoint RSS feed description fields as elements

Question

Hello, This is my first time working with RSS but I am fluent with XML/XSL. I have a RSS feed that I am pulling from a list in Sharepoint. The sample XML is below.
The RSS description element parses the various columns (Body, Expires, Attachments) that are in the Sharepoint list automatically. I know that from the list I can control which fields are included in the description, but this is not what I am looking to do.

Is there any way to force the fields to come through in an XML element format instead of the CDATA that converted to HTML? For example, I may want to check a priority field and if it is important when applying the XSL I would bold red it or something. Since this is in the HTML/CDATA format it makes it messy to parse that field.

<rss version="2.0">
  <channel>
    <title>Announcements</title>
    <link>http://somewebsite/Announcements/Current.aspx&lt;/link&gt;
    <description>RSS feed for the Announcements list.</description>
    <lastBuildDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:31:01 GMT</lastBuildDate>
    <generator>Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator</generator>
    <ttl>1</ttl>
    <image>
      <title>Announcements</title>
      <url>/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url>
      <link>http://somewebsite/Announcements/Current.aspx&lt;/link&gt;
    </image>
    <item>
      <title>Woohoo a post! </title>
      <link>http://somewebsite/Announcements/DispForm.aspx?ID=36&lt;/link&gt;
      <description>
        <![CDATA[<div><b>Body:</b> <div>
<div>The attached email was sent from chairman and CEO on Tuesday March 3, 2009.</div>
<div></div></div></div>
<div><b>Expires:</b> 7/30/2009</div>
<div><b>Attachments:</b> <a href="http://somewebsite/Woohoo.htm"&gt;http://somewebsite/Woohoo.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=""></a></div>
]]>
      </description>
      <author>Me, Myself and I</author>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:38:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid isPermaLink="true">http://somewebsite/Announcements/DispForm.aspx?ID=69&lt;/guid&gt;
    </item>
  </channel>
</rss>

Answer 1

There is the RSSBus SharePoint Web Part. This lets you format the SharePoint RSS feeds using templates so you can get just the output you want. It's not open source or free however there is a trial that may assist you.