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