Listing F

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 <head>

 <script language="javascript"> var theight=22;

 var transtime=2000;

 var transtime=2000;

 borderw=1;

 var pad_top=4;

 var pad_top2=4;

 var pad_left=8;

 var pad_left2=0;

 borderd='border-style:solid; border-width:1px; border-color:#000000;';

 var text_alignt='left';

 var text_alignh='center';

 var text_decort='none';

 var text_decorh='none';

 var fstylet='normal';

 var fstyleh='normal';

 var fweightt='normal';

 var fweighth='bold';

 var fontn='Verdana';

 bgcol = 'lightblue';

 bgcolh = 'blue';

 txtcol = 'red';

 txthicol = 'yellow';

 txtcolh = 'pink';

 border_color_str='#000000';

 var text = new Array();

 var header = new Array();

 var linka = new Array();

 var targa = new Array();

 var newsItems;

// create an XMLDoc

 var xmldoc;

// for DOM2 including NN 6 & 7

 if (document.implementation && document.implementation.createDocument)

 {
    // create the XML Doc
    xmldoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);

    // define a function to run on load
    xmldoc.onload=function(){pop_ticker();}

 }

// for IE

 else if (window.ActiveXObject)

 {
    // create a new XML object for IE
   xmldoc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");

    // define some attributes of the doc
    xmldoc.async = false;

    // define a function to run on load
    xmldoc.onreadystatechange=function(){if(xmldoc.readyState == 4){pop_ticker();}}

 }

// for the rest

 else

 {
    alert('Your browser can\'t handle this script');

 }

//load the XML file in

 xmldoc.load('news.xml');

// this is the function that populates the arryas from the XML so that the ticker will work

 function pop_ticker()

 {
    // load the news items from the XML file
    newsItems = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("newselement");

    // populate the Arrays from the XML file
    for (var i=0;i<newsItems.length;i++)
    {
        // add the elements of the ticker item
        text[i]=newsItems[i].getElementsByTagName("headline")[0].firstChild.data;
        header[i]=newsItems[i].getElementsByTagName("newsitem")[0].firstChild.data;
        linka[i]=newsItems[i].getElementsByTagName("newslink")[0].firstChild.data;
        targa[i]=newsItems[i].getElementsByTagName("newstarget")[0].firstChild.data;
    }

 }

 </script>

 </head>

 <body>

 <div style="position:relative;width:500; height:22;overflow:hidden; margin:0px;"><div id="spage" style="position:relative; width:500; height:22; background: #EEEEEE; overflow:hidden; FILTER: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.GradientWipe(GradientSize=0.20,wipestyle=0,motion=forward,duration=2);"></div><script language="javascript" src="headline.js"></script></div>

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