function loadFranchising(url, handler) {

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

var xmldoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);
xmldoc.onload = function( ) { handler(xmldoc); }
xmldoc.load(url);

}
else if (window.ActiveXObject) {

var xmldoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
xmldoc.onreadystatechange = function( ) {
if (xmldoc.readyState == 4) handler(xmldoc);
}
xmldoc.load(url);
}
}

function formatRSS(xmldoc) {

var items = xmldoc.getElementsByTagName("item");

for(var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {

var e = items[i];
arrFTitle[i] = e.getElementsByTagName("title")[0].firstChild.data;
arrFLink[i] = e.getElementsByTagName("link")[0].firstChild.data;

}

showNewsReel();

}

function showNewsReel(){
var strNewsReel = "" ;

for(var idx = 0; idx < arrFTitle.length; idx++ ) {

strNewsReel = strNewsReel + '<b>»</b>&nbsp;<a href="' + arrFLink[idx] + '" class="feature">' + arrFTitle[idx] + '</a><br>';
}
franchising.innerHTML = strNewsReel;

}

</script>