//shows the RSS content in the browser
function showRSS(RSS,num_items){		
	//default values for html tags used
	//var imageTag = "<img id='chan_image'";
	//var startItemTag = "<li>";
	//var startTitle = "<div id='item_title'>";
	//var startLink = "<div id='item_link'>";
	//var startDescription = "<div id='item_description'>";
	//var endTag = "</li>";
	
	
	//populate channel data
	//var properties = new Array("title","link","description","pubDate","copyright");
	var properties = new Array("description");
	for (var i=0; i<properties.length; i++)	{
		eval("document.getElementById('more_from_author_name').innerHTML = ''");
		curProp = eval("RSS."+properties[i]);
		if (curProp != null){
			eval("document.getElementById('more_from_author_name').innerHTML = curProp");
		}
	}

	//show the image
	/*
	document.getElementById("chan_image_link").innerHTML = "";
	if (RSS.image.src != null){
		document.getElementById("chan_image_link").href = RSS.image.link;
		document.getElementById("chan_image_link").innerHTML = imageTag
			+" alt='"+RSS.image.description
			+"' width='"+RSS.image.width
			+"' height='"+RSS.image.height
			+"' src='"+RSS.image.url
			+"' "+"/>";
	} */

	//populate the items
	document.getElementById("author_items").innerHTML = "";
	item_html = "";
	var results = num_items.split("|");
	low = results[0]; //low
	high = parseInt(results[1]) + 1; //high
	
	//GETS THE CURRENT ARTICLES TITLE
	var articleTitle = document.getElementById('article-title').innerHTML;
	
	for (var i=0; i<RSS.items.length; i++){						
		//MAKES SURE WE ONLY GET HIGH LIMIT AMOUNT AND ALSO CHECKS WE ARE NOT ADDING THE CURRENT ARTICLE TO THE LIST
		if(  (i<high && RSS.items[i].title!=articleTitle) && (i<high && html_entity_decode(RSS.items[i].title,"ENT_QUOTES")!=articleTitle)  ){
			item_html += "<li>";
			item_html += (RSS.items[i].title == null && RSS.items[i].link == null) ? "" : "<a href=\""+RSS.items[i].link+"\">" + RSS.items[i].title + "</a>";
			//item_html += (RSS.items[i].link == null) ? "" : startLink + RSS.items[i].link + endTag;
			// item_html += (RSS.items[i].description == null) ? "" : startDescription + RSS.items[i].description + endTag;
			item_html += "</li>";	
		}
	}
	if(item_html!=""){
		document.getElementById("author_items").innerHTML += item_html; /*D1*/	
		document.getElementById("more_from_author_mod").style.display = "block";
	}

	//we're done
	
	return true;
}