function ajax_get_rss(url, pageElement, callMessage, errorMessage) {
     document.getElementById(pageElement).innerHTML = callMessage;
     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;
         } 
       } 
     }
     req.onreadystatechange = function() {ajax_response_rss(req,pageElement, errorMessage);};
     req.open("GET",url,true);
     req.send(null);
  }

function ajax_response_rss(reqx,pageElement, errorMessage) {
   output = '';
   if(reqx.readyState == 4) {
      if(reqx.status == 200) {
         output = reqx.responseText;
         document.getElementById(pageElement).innerHTML = "";
writerss(pageElement,output);

         } else {
         document.getElementById(pageElement).innerHTML = errorMessage+"\n"+output;
         }
      }
  }


function writerss(pageElement,output)
{
//lcount=" class='firstrsslink' ";

var xmlobject = (new DOMParser()).parseFromString(output, "text/xml");
var item = xmlobject.getElementsByTagName('item');

for(i=0;i<item.length && i<5;i++ )
{
var rsstitle = item[i].getElementsByTagName('title'); 
var rsslink = item[i].getElementsByTagName('link'); 
try{
var rssdescription = item[i].getElementsByTagName('description');
dummydescr = rssdescription[0].firstChild.nodeValue
} catch(e){
var rssdescription = item[i].getElementsByTagName('short'); 
} 
document.getElementById(pageElement).innerHTML +=("<div class='rsslink'><abbr title='"+rssdescription[0].firstChild.nodeValue+"'><a  href='"+rsslink[0].firstChild.nodeValue+"'>" + rsstitle[0].firstChild.nodeValue + "<\/a></abbr><\/div>");

} 

}