'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'title', u'').replace(u'    ', u'.')
    url = item.get(u'link', u'').replace(u'&amp;', u'&').replace(u'%26tr%3D', u'&tr=')
    return (title, url)
