externalfeed.js

var feed = "http://info.uwe.ac.uk/news/xml/uwenewsrss.xml";
var api = "http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/services/feed/load?v=1.0&callback=displayFeed&output=json&q=" + encodeURIComponent(feed);

//This creates a script element to make a "jsonp" request each time the page is requested
var script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = api;
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);
//use the data that comes back to put into the HTML div
var displayFeed = function(data){
	// loop through the feed items
	if(data.responseData.feed.entries){
		for(var i=0; i< data.responseData.feed.entries.length; i++){
			//create new HTML elements to hold the items
			var hl = document.createElement("li");
			var lnk = document.createElement("a");
			var blurb = document.createElement("p");
			// make a link and add it to the list item
			lnk.href = data.responseData.feed.entries[i].link;
			lnk.innerText = data.responseData.feed.entries[i].title;
			lnk.text = data.responseData.feed.entries[i].title;
			hl.appendChild(lnk);
			// Also add the content snippet
			blurb.textContent= data.responseData.feed.entries[i].contentSnippet;
			blurb.innerText= data.responseData.feed.entries[i].contentSnippet;
			console.log(blurb);
			hl.appendChild(blurb);
			//Add the whole item to the list
			document.getElementById("hls").appendChild(hl);
		}
	}
	
}