function getRequest() {
		var con = new Array();
		var _ms_XMLHttpRequest_ActiveX = "";
		var req;
		if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
			req = new XMLHttpRequest();
		} else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
			if (_ms_XMLHttpRequest_ActiveX) {
				req = new ActiveXObject(_ms_XMLHttpRequest_ActiveX);
			} else {
				var versions = ["Msxml2.XMLHTTP.7.0", "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0", "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.5.0", "Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0", "MSXML2.XMLHTTP.3.0", "MSXML2.XMLHTTP","Microsoft.XMLHTTP"];
				for (var i = 0; i < versions.length ; i++) {
					try {
						req = new ActiveXObject(versions[i]);
						if (req) {
							_ms_XMLHttpRequest_ActiveX = versions[i];
							break;
						}
					} catch (objException) {
								// trap; try next one
					}
				}
			}
		}
		con[0]=req;
		con[1]=_ms_XMLHttpRequest_ActiveX;
		return con;
	}

	function loadRSS(url) {
	//alert("running");
		try {
			if ( _ms_XMLHttpRequest_ActiveX1 ) {
				rssRequest.onreadystatechange = processRSS;
				rssRequest.open("GET", url, true);
				rssRequest.send(null);
			} else {
				if (rssRequest) {
					rssRequest.onreadystatechange = processRSS;
					rssRequest.open("GET", url, true);
					rssRequest.send(null);
				}
			}
		} catch ( rssRequestException ) {}
	}


	function getChildNode( myElement, naming ) {
		return myElement.getElementsByTagName(naming)[0].firstChild.nodeValue;
	}

	function processRSS() {
		var cycle = 0;
		try {
			if (rssRequest.readyState == 4) {
				if (rssRequest.status == 200) {
					response = rssRequest.responseXML.documentElement;
					if ( response ) {
						var items = response.getElementsByTagName("item");
						for ( var i = 0 ; i < items.length; i++ )
						{
							var title = getChildNode(items[i],"title");
							var desc = getChildNode(items[i],"description");
							var link = getChildNode(items[i],"link");
							rssItems[cycle] = title;
							linkItems[cycle] = link;
							++cycle;
						}
					}
				} else {
					alert("There was a problem retrieving the XML data:\n" + req.statusText);
				}
			}
		} catch ( jsException ) {alert(jsException.message);}
	}

	var httpArc2 						= getRequest();
	var rssRequest						= httpArc2[0];
	var _ms_XMLHttpRequest_ActiveX1 	= httpArc2[1];

	var rssItems = new Array();
	var linkItems = new Array();


	function openWindow(url){
		window.open(url);
	}



	var storyCount = 0;
	var itemLen = 0;

	function tickTock(){

		var obj = document.getElementById("scroller");

		var myTimeout = 50;
		var str;
		var st = rssItems[storyCount];

		if ( itemLen > st.length ) {
			storyCount++;
			if ( storyCount >= rssItems.length  ) {
				storyCount = 0;
			}
			itemLen = 0;
			myTimeout=3000;
			setTimeout("tickTock()", myTimeout);
		} else {
			++itemLen;
			str = rssItems[storyCount].toString();
			str = str.substring(0,itemLen) + "";
			obj.innerHTML = "<span class=globalheader>SOCCERPITCH HEADLINES:</span><br/><a href="+linkItems[storyCount]+" class=headlines>" + str + "</a>";
			setTimeout("tickTock()", myTimeout);
		}

	}

	setTimeout("tickTock()", 3000);


	loadRSS('grab.php?http://www.soccerpitch.co.uk/headlines.xml');