var arrTitle = new Array(), arrDesc = new Array(), arrLink = new Array();

function loadXML(url, handler) {

    if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument) {

        var xmldoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);
        xmldoc.onload = function(  ) { handler(xmldoc); }
        xmldoc.load(url);

    }
    else if (window.ActiveXObject) { 

        var xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");   
        xmldoc.onreadystatechange = function(  ) {            
            if (xmldoc.readyState == 4) handler(xmldoc);
    }
	     xmldoc.load(url);                                  
    }
}
 

function formatRSS(xmldoc) {

	var items = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("item");

	for(var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {

	    var e = items[i];
		arrTitle[i] = e.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].firstChild.data;
		arrDesc[i] = e.getElementsByTagName("description")[0].firstChild.data;
		arrLink[i] = e.getElementsByTagName("link")[0].firstChild.data;
 
    	}

	showNewsReel();

}

function showNewsReel(){

	var strNewsReel = "" ;

	for(var idx = 0; idx < arrTitle.length; idx++ ) {

		strNewsReel = strNewsReel + '<Div align="center"><a target="_blank" href="' + arrLink[idx] + '">' + arrTitle[idx] + '<br/>' + 
	 		       arrDesc[idx] + '</a></div><br/><br/>';
	}
	newsreel.innerHTML = strNewsReel;

}

function showFeed(url){
		 loadXML(url, formatRSS);
}

function stopFeed(){
	newsreel.innerHTML = "";
}