LAST EDITED ON Jan-15-08 AT 02:54 PM (PST)
 
He Ernie and Taz...

There's an easier way...Sorry, I should have thought of this earlier...

Just wrap the description with a CDATA tag:

(This forum messes with the code so I made a screenshot of the code)

Again, the above is a jpg of the code, so you won't be able to "copy/paste" and will have to type it...The text file of the code has been attached to this post:

This will wrap all the contents in a CDATA tag and any html included inbetween the CDATA tags will be OK.

Notes:

A CDATA section cannot contain the string "]]>", therefore, nested CDATA sections are not allowed.

Also make sure there are no spaces or line breaks inside the "]]>" string.

For more info:
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

The text file of the code has been attached to this post: