Parsing XML Node Data

So I built an RSS/XML reader in flash that is reading this xml file
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/newsfeed/rss.xml

Now as you can see there are certain titles with that ugly tag <cite></cite>

How do i parse the XML values so I can remove those <cite> tags in flash when flash reads the titles. I dont want them to appear.

And better yet, is there a way I can get them to instead of remove the <cite> tags but make the words in between Italicized?