function doTask(params) {
  if (document.implementation && window.document.implementation.createDocument)
  {
    xmlDoc = document.implementation.createDocument("", "", null);
    xmlDoc.onload = doResponse;
  }
  else if (window.ActiveXObject)
  {
    xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
    xmlDoc.onreadystatechange = function () {
      if (xmlDoc.readyState == 4) doResponse()
    };
  }
  else
  {
    return false;
  }
  d = new Date; // Generic - use to create unique url requests
  var rand = d.getTime();
  var url=document.location.protocol+'//'+document.location.host+'/alt/doTask.xml?rand='+rand+'&'+params;
  try{
    xmlDoc.load(url); // this is what we like to do
  } catch(e) { // if failed try using httprequest as a fallback - (e.g. Safari)
    try {
      req = new XMLHttpRequest();
    } catch(e) {
      req = false;
    }
    if(req) {
      req.onreadystatechange = processHttpRequest;
      req.open("GET", url, true);
      req.send("");
    }

  }

  return false;
}

function processHttpRequest() {
  if (req.readyState == 4) {
        if (req.status == 200) {
      xmlDoc=req.responseXML;
      doResponse();
        }
    }
}

function doResponse() {
  var tasks = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('task');
  var cmd=null;

  for(var i=0;i<tasks.length;i++) {
    cmd=tasks[i].getElementsByTagName('cmd')[0];

    if (cmd.childNodes[0]) {
      switch(cmd.childNodes[0].nodeValue) {
        case 'replace': // replace the innerHTML of an element
          var id=tasks[i].getElementsByTagName('id')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
          var content=tasks[i].getElementsByTagName('content')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
          if (id.length>0 && document.getElementById(id)) document.getElementById(id).innerHTML=content;
          break;
        case 'execute': // run some js
          var script=tasks[i].getElementsByTagName('script')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
          eval(script);
          break;

      }
    }
  }
  //document.getElementById('userCode').innerHTML=text;
}

function html_entity_decode(str) {
  var ta=document.createElement("textarea");
  ta.innerHTML=str.replace(/</g,"&lt;").replace(/>/g,"&gt;");
  return ta.value;
}




function makePrice () {
  var price=0;
  var tax=0;

  for(var i=0;i<config.length;i++) {
    switch(config[i][0]) {
      case 'chk':
        if(document.getElementById(config[i][1]).checked) price=price+config[i][2];
        break;
      case 'qty':
        price=(price+config[i][2])*parseInt(document.getElementById(config[i][1]).value);
        break;
      case 'tax':
        tax=config[i][2];
        break;
    }
  }

  if(!isNaN(price)) {
    document.getElementById('exvat').innerHTML='&pound;'+(price.toFixed(2));
    price=price+(price*tax);
    document.getElementById('incvat').innerHTML='&pound;'+(price.toFixed(2));
  }
}

/*
* hide the hideMe element
*/
function loadMe() {
  for(var i=0;i<config.length;i++) {
    switch(config[i][0]) {
      case 'chk':
        document.getElementById(config[i][1]).onclick=makePrice;
      break;
      case 'qty':
        document.getElementById(config[i][1]).onkeyup=function () {setTimeout('makePrice()',25);};
      break;
    }
  }
}

/*
* use JS to hide controls which are only required when JS is not enabled
* - do this by adding hideJS as a class to the css
*/
function hideElements() {
  if (document.styleSheets) {
    if (document.styleSheets[0].addRule) {    // IE
      document.styleSheets[0].addRule('.hideJS','display: none',0);
    } else {    // !IE
      document.styleSheets[0].insertRule('.hideJS {display: none}', 0);
    }
  }

}

/*
* Add the onload function to any other onload function
*/
function addLoadEvent(func) {
  var oldonload = window.onload;

  if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
    window.onload = func;
  } else {
    window.onload = function() {
      oldonload();
      func();
    }
  }

}

addLoadEvent(loadMe);
addLoadEvent(hideElements);