How do I preserve HTML from the XML in PHP?

I'm trying to create myself a news page using PHP. However, I ran into a little bit of a roadblock. I want each post to be separated, to only have 5 posts at a time loaded, and for the HTML to be preserved. I got the first two, but the third is becoming a problem.

I've tried everything I can. I don't exactly know how each function is interacting with each other, so I always break something when trying to add something new. I tried using saveHTML() in here, but no matter where I place it, it either does nothing or breaks something.

All I want is for the post's content to preserve the HTML, some posts have unordered lists, and some have links.

By the way, here is the code:

<?php
    $rss = new DOMDocument();
    $rss->load('http://screenbones.com/news.xml');
    $feed = array();
    foreach ($rss->getElementsByTagName('item') as $node) {
        $item = array ( 
            'title' => $node->getElementsByTagName('title')->item(0)->nodeValue,
            'desc' => $node->getElementsByTagName('description')->item(0)->nodeValue,
            'link' => $node->getElementsByTagName('link')->item(0)->nodeValue,
            'date' => $node->getElementsByTagName('pubDate')->item(0)->nodeValue,
            );
        array_push($feed, $item);
    }
    $limit = 5;
    for($x=0;$x<$limit;$x++) {
        $title = str_replace(' & ', ' &amp; ', $feed[$x]['title']);
        $link = $feed[$x]['link'];
        $description = $feed[$x]['desc'];
        $date = date('l F d, Y', strtotime($feed[$x]['date']));

        echo '<article>';
        echo '<p><strong><a href="'.$link.'" title="'.$title.'">'.$title.'</a></strong><br />';
        echo '<small><em>Posted on '.$date.'</em></small></p>';
        echo $description;
        echo '</article>';
    }
?>