function getNews()
    {
   var rssFeedType="sGetRSS";

        dojo.io.bind({
            url: "http://www.holycross.edu/pgstlrss/fetchRss?feedUrl=http://events.holycross.edu/events/rss.php?s=3", 
            load: function(type, data, evt) {processNewsFeed(data);},
            error: function(type, error) {},
            mimetype: "text/xml"
            });
    }

function setNewsMessageUsingDOM(root)
{
    var rssContentArea = dojo.byId("rss_posts_events_box");
    rssContentArea.innerHTML = root;

} 

function processNewsFeed(data)
{
	var items;
	var item_title;
	var title_length;
	var item_proper_title;
	var item_link;
	var item_descr;
	var item_date;
	var rssContent = "";
	var root = data.getElementsByTagName("rss")[0];
	var channel = root.getElementsByTagName("channel");
	items = channel[0].getElementsByTagName("item");
	disp_items = 4;
	total_items = items.length;
	if (total_items < disp_items)
	{
		disp_items = (total_items );
	}

	
	
	for (itm = 0; itm < disp_items; itm++)
	{
		item_link = items[itm].getElementsByTagName("link")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
		item_proper_title = items[itm].getElementsByTagName("title")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
	
		try
		{	
		   item_descr = items[itm].getElementsByTagName("description")[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
		}
		catch (err)
		{
			item_descr=" ";
		}
		item_date = item_proper_title.substring(0,10);
		title_length = item_proper_title.length;
		item_title = item_proper_title.substring(13, title_length);
		rssContent = rssContent + "<div class='rss_post'><div class='rss_post_txt'><div class='rss_post_date'>" + item_date + "</div>";
		rssContent = rssContent + "<div class='rss_post_title'>" + item_title + "</div>"
		rssContent = rssContent + "<a href='" + item_link + "' class='rss_news_post_more'>Read More...</a>";
		rssContent = rssContent + "<div class='clrbth'></div></div></div>";
	}
	rssContent = rssContent + "<a href='http://events.holycross.edu' title='See All' class='recent_button'>See All</a>";
	setNewsMessageUsingDOM(rssContent);
}