'Retrieves the title and URL data from the item XML node
item: An elementtree.ElementTree element representing the <item> tag of the RSS feed
Returns: A tuple containing two strings representing title and URL respectively'

def _get_title_and_url(self, item):

    title = item.get(u'description', u'')
    if self.descTitleStart.match(title):
        title = self.descTitleStart.sub(u'', title)
        title = self.descTitleEnd.sub(u'', title)
        title = title.replace(u'+', u'.')
    else:
        title = item.get(u'title', u'')
        for titleCleaner in self.titleCleaners:
            title = titleCleaner.sub(u'', title)
    url = item.get(u'link', u'').replace(u'&amp;', u'&')
    return (title, url)
