function makeRequest(url,parser,method)
{
 var vCurrTime = new Date();
 var vCurrSecs  = (((vCurrTime.getHours() * 60) + vCurrTime.getMinutes()) * 60) + vCurrTime.getSeconds();
 var vNoCache = "nocache=" + vCurrSecs;

 if (url.indexOf("?") != -1)
  url += "&" + vNoCache;
 else
  url += "?" + vNoCache;

 $.ajax
 ({
    type: method,
    url: url,
    dataType: "xml",
    complete: function(data)
    {
       eval(parser + "(data)");
    }
 });
} // makeRequest

function getNodeValue(xmlObj,name)
{
   var value = "";
   if ( xmlObj && eval("xmlObj." + name) && eval("xmlObj." + name + ".length") > 0)
   {
    $.each(eval("xmlObj." + name),function(i)
    {
     value = eval("xmlObj." + name + "[i]").Text;
    });
    return value;
   }
   else
    return "";
} // getNodeValue

function getNodeValues(xmlObj,name)
{
   var value = "";
   if ( xmlObj && eval("xmlObj." + name) && eval("xmlObj." + name + ".length") > 0)
   {
    return eval("xmlObj." + name);
   }
} // getNodeValues