Show RSS feeds

Hi all,

I’m building an Iphone application, and I have build an rss reader.

The main issue with the custom program is that we don’t have a thumbnail image already there with the feed to show in the cell. Showing the main image in the cell will create a huge delay for downloading each of them. Also the snippet text (intro text) is also not available in the feed directly. Extracting just the first lines from the feed is difficult as it is provided as CDATA.

Question:

Is there a way to have this data in separate sections like the title, image, or date in the feed so that we can parse them directly to be shown in the cell?

Hope that there will be some experts here.

Regards,

Peter