/** Deserializes the object from XML */
  public DataItem parseItem(XMLStreamReader in) throws IOException, XMLStreamException {
    DataItem item = new DataItem();

    ArrayList<DataField> fieldList = new ArrayList<DataField>();

    int tag = in.nextTag();
    while (tag > 0) {
      if (_isFinest) debug(in);

      if (XMLStreamReader.END_ELEMENT == tag) {
        item.setFieldList(fieldList);

        return item;
      }

      if (XMLStreamReader.START_ELEMENT == tag && "field".equals(in.getLocalName())) {
        fieldList.add(parseField(in));
      } else if (XMLStreamReader.START_ELEMENT == tag) {
        log.finer(this + " <" + in.getLocalName() + "> is an unknown tag");

        skipToEnd(in, in.getLocalName());
      }

      tag = in.nextTag();
    }

    skipToEnd(in, "item");

    return item;
  }