First round injecting news articles into homepages using serverside precompiled snippets

roles/Foundation/files/custom/public/assets/js/aninix.js

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+/* RSS Reading */
+function insertNewsSnippet(snippet,tag) {
+    /* DOM XML handling has been too problematic, so we are now using git-hooks to pre-generate the snippet. This function injects that snippet.
+     * param snippet: URI for the snippet
+     * param tag: div tag to overwrite
+     */
+    var http_request = false;
+    http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
+    http_request.open("GET",snippet,true);
+    http_request.setRequestHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
+    http_request.setRequestHeader("Pragma", "no-cache");
+    http_request.onreadystatechange = function() {
+        if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
+            if (http_request.status == 200) {
+                if (http_request.responseText != null) {
+                    document.getElementById(tag).innerHTML = http_request.responseText;
+                } else {
+                    alert("Failed to receive RSS file from the server - file not found.");
+                    return false;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    http_request.send(null);
+}