An Ajax RSS Headline Reader

function getXMLHTTPRequest() { try { req = new XMLHttpRequest(); /* e.g. Firefox */ } catch(e) { try { req = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); /* some versions IE */ } catch (e) { try { req = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); /* some versions IE */ } catch (E) { req = false; } } } return req; } var http = getXMLHTTPRequest(); function getRSS() { var myurl = 'rssproxy.php?feed='; var myfeed = document.form1.feed.value; myRand = parseInt(Math.random()*999999999999999); // cache buster var modurl = myurl+escape(myfeed)+"&rand="+myRand; http.open("GET", modurl, true); http.onreadystatechange = useHttpResponse; http.send(null); } function useHttpResponse() { if (http.readyState == 4) { if(http.status == 200) { // first remove the childnodes presently in the DM while (document.getElementById('news').hasChildNodes()) { document.getElementById('news').removeChild(document.getElementById('news').firstChild); } var titleNodes = http.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("title"); var descriptionNodes = http.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("description"); var linkNodes = http.responseXML.getElementsByTagName("link"); for(var i =1;i<titleNodes.length;i++) { var newtext = document.createTextNode(titleNodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue); var newpara = document.createElement('p'); newpara.className = "title"; var para = document.getElementById('news').appendChild(newpara); newpara.appendChild(newtext); var newtext2 = document.createTextNode(descriptionNodes[i].childNodes[0].nodeValue); var newpara2 = document.createElement('p'); newpara2.className = "descrip"; var para2 = document.getElementById('news').appendChild(newpara2); newpara2.appendChild(newtext2); var newtext3 = document.createTextNode(linkNodes [i].childNodes[0].nodeValue); var newpara3 = document.createElement('p'); newpara3.className = "link"; var para3 = document.getElementById('news').appendChild(newpara3); newpara3.appendChild(newtext3); } } } }

An Ajax RSS Reader