function showRSS(rssfeed,outputId,max_results)
{
if (window.XMLHttpRequest)
  {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari
  xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
  }
else
  {// code for IE6, IE5
  xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
  }
xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function()
  {
  if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200 && xmlhttp.responseXML.documentElement != null)
    {
    	document.getElementById(outputId).innerHTML=readFeed(xmlhttp.responseXML.documentElement,max_results);
    }
  }
xmlhttp.open("GET",rssfeed,true);;
xmlhttp.send();
}
function readFeed(xml_obj,max_results)
{
	var channel = xml_obj.getElementsByTagName('channel').item(0); 
	 var items = channel.getElementsByTagName('item');  

	 var content = '<ul>';
     for (var n=0; n <items.length && n < max_results; n++) 
     {
    	 var title = items[n].getElementsByTagName('title').item(0).firstChild.data;  
         var link = items[n].getElementsByTagName('link').item(0).firstChild.data;  
         
         content += '<li><a href="'+link+'">'+title+'</a></li>'; 
     } 
     content += '</ul>';
     return content;
}
