First, before you say anything, i HAVE to do this because the RSS is malformed, but i can\'t correct it on my end. So, while I tried using an RSS and a XML parser, they fail
Many parsers can handle slight deviations from the specs. Any binding to the excellent libxml2 library would be able to handle poorly formed XML. There are bindings in many languages. For example, the following Ruby snippet parses it just fine:
require 'nokogiri'
xml = open('rss.txt').read
doc = Nokogiri::XML.parse(xml)
doc.xpath('//title').each do |title|
puts title.inner_text
end
Result:
"joint terrorism task force" location:oregon - Google News
"joint terrorism task force" location:oregon - Google News
Federal and FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force are still flawed - OregonLive.com
Striking a fair balance - OregonLive.com
Blame the terrorists, not the FBI - Portland Tribune
Why Oregon? Why not?: Terrorism can strike anywhere - The Register-Guard
INDIVIDUAL TRAVEL UNDER ATTACK - NewsWithViews.com
The other terrorism-and pondering Portland - BlueOregon
Fla. dance troupe causes scare at Lincoln Tunnel - Northwest Cable News
Edit: based on your comments I see you're using jQuery. You should be able to use a jQuery XML parser to extract the titles (and other parts, as needed).