var tickercontainer='<div id="container" style="width:400px"></div>'
				var xmlsource="news.xml"
				if (window.ActiveXObject)
				var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
				else if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)
				var xmlDoc= document.implementation.createDocument("","doc",null);
				if (typeof xmlDoc!="undefined"){
				document.write(tickercontainer)
				xmlDoc.load(xmlsource)
				}

				var notWhitespace = /\S/
				function init_ticker(){
				tickerobj=xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("xmlticker")[0]

				for (i=0;i<tickerobj.childNodes.length;i++){
				if ((tickerobj.childNodes[i].nodeType == 3)&&(!notWhitespace.test(tickerobj.childNodes[i].nodeValue))) {
				tickerobj.removeChild(tickerobj.childNodes[i])
				i--
				}
				}
				document.getElementById("container").innerHTML=tickerobj.childNodes[1].firstChild.nodeValue
				msglength=tickerobj.childNodes.length
				currentmsg=2
				themessage=''
				setInterval("rotatemsg()",tickerobj.childNodes[0].firstChild.nodeValue)
				}

				function rotatemsg(){
				var msgsobj=tickerobj.childNodes[currentmsg]
				if (msgsobj.getAttribute("url")!=null){
				themessage='<a href="'+msgsobj.getAttribute("url")+'"'
				if (msgsobj.getAttribute("target")!=null)
				themessage+=' target="'+msgsobj.getAttribute("target")+'"'
				themessage+='>'
				}
				themessage+=msgsobj.firstChild.nodeValue
				if (msgsobj.getAttribute("url")!=null)
				themessage+='</a>'

				document.getElementById("container").innerHTML=themessage
				currentmsg=(currentmsg<msglength-1)? currentmsg+1 : 1
				themessage=''
				}

				function fetchxml(){
				if (xmlDoc.readyState==4)
				init_ticker()
				else
				setTimeout("fetchxml()",10)
				}

				if (window.ActiveXObject)
				fetchxml()
				else if (typeof xmlDoc!="undefined")
				xmlDoc.onload=init_ticker