div automatically added in $item->get_description(); using simplepie - rss

Question

I am getting a div that is appearing in the output from calling a RSS feed. It is ignoring my attempts to wrap it in a paragraph tag and pushes the data out to the div.
foreach ($feed->get_items(0 , 3) as $item):
$feedDescription = $item->get_content();
$image = returnImage($feedDescription);
$image = scrapeImage($image);
$image_url= $item->get_permalink();
$description = $item->get_description();
?>
<div class="item">
<h4><?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></h4>
<div class="image-box"><?php echo '<img src="' . $image . '" />'."\n";?></div>
<p><?php echo $description ?></p>
<p>Continue Reading</p>
</div>
<?php endforeach; ?>
Here is the html output:
<div class="item">
<h4>Lorem Ipsum</h4>
<div class="image-box"><img src="image.jpg">
</div>
<p></p>
<div>Lorem Ipsum description [...]</div>
<p></p>
<p>Continue Reading</p>
</div>
Why does the description call add a div tag and not get wrapped in the paragraph tag?

Answer 1

That is not a problem of SimplePie... well, not directly.
Try to test this html-block:
<div class="item">
<h2>Title</h2>
<p><div><span>Description</span></div></p>
<p><small>Posted on TODAY</small></p>
</div>
You will see that here the behaviour is the same.
The problem is, that the post you get from simplepie is encapsulated in a DIV. And inserting a DIV into a paragraph results in a seperation of both.
So you could try to delete the enclosing DIV in PHP with a regexp or with jQuery, for instance.