SSI, scrolling text, & tables

If you look at my web site you will see an "online" ticker area at the top. You will notice it is empty. My intent is to have real time data pulled from an xml file that gets updated from a 3rd party app that is run inside the game we play. Based on the information in the xml file I wish to display a character's name in a scrolling text format that is in a table.

I have looked at dhtml, java, and javascript to do this but have not found anything that would fit what I want. My best guess on how to do this is to convert the xml to shtml (I can do this) then have ssi pull that formated information into a javascript or java app and display that script or app in a table. For the life of me I can not find out how to do this or even if it can be done.

Just looking for some direction.

There numerous "scroller" java applets out there. You could also use php or something similar to read the xml file into a string that javascript could scroll. Don't bother with the shtml conversion step, that's not going to gain you anything either way. However, being able to reformat the xml file might make it easier to read into your page.