Help With RSS Feeds

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I know RSS feeds are not as popular these days but if anyone knows about them I was wondering if you could help.

I have a device that displays RSS feeds.
But it only displays the title of each news item.
I want it to display the description instead.

Basically, how I can take an existing feed and swap the description & title and republish this as an .xml?

For example, a segment from the BBC News RSS...

<item>
<title><![CDATA[China ratifies Paris climate agreement]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[China's top legislative body ratifies the Paris global climate agreement, ahead of an expected joint announcement with the US.]]></description>
<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37265541</link>
<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37265541</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
<media:thumbnail width="976" height="549" url="http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/5D85/production/_91014932_china.jpg"/>

I want it to be like this...

<item>
<title><![CDATA[China's top legislative body ratifies the Paris global climate agreement, ahead of an expected joint announcement with the US.]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[China ratifies Paris climate agreement]]></description>
<link>http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37265541</link>
<guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-37265541</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2016 09:17:53 GMT</pubDate>
<media:thumbnail width="976" height="549" url="http://c.files.bbci.co.uk/5D85/production/_91014932_china.jpg"/>

After searching on the net it seems Yahoo Pipes was the way to go, unfortunately Yahoo Pipes shut down. Is there another way to "mangle" an RSS?

Thanks
 
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