An item is a description of a web resource.

It often contains a short summary of the resource.

All the elements of item are optional but it must contain at least one title or description.

Example:

<item>
<title>Document Engineering: Information Systems 243</title>
<link>http://cde.berkeley.edu/events/s05is243/</link>
<description>
This course introduces a new discipline of document engineering for specifying, 
designing, and deploying the electronic documents that enable document-centric 
business transactions and applications, including web services and virtual 
enterprises. Topics include developing requirements, analyzing existing 
documents, identifying reusable components, modeling business processes, 
representing models using XML schemas, and using XML models to implement and 
drive applications.
</description>
</item>

An item can have the optional elements:

• Metadata: title, link,description, author, pubDate, guid, category

• Additional Resources: comments, enclosure