Dynamic XML content displayed in HTML using url variable

Question

Hi guys,
The following is code i am having issues with:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var xml_connect_00 = "new Spry.Data.XMLDataSet(";
var xml_connect_01 = "assets/xml/toolkit.xml\",
\"toolkit/section/";
var xml_connect_02 =
"/product\",{sortOnLoad:\"product_name\",sortOrderOnLoad:\"ascending\"";
var xml_connect_03 = ")";
// Create variable to see if there is a ? in the url
var url_input = document.URL.indexOf('?');
// Create variable from ? in the url to the end of the string
var xml_category = document.URL.substring(url_input+1,
document.URL.length);
var dsSoftware =
document.write(xml_connect_00,xml_connect_01,xml_category,xml_connect_02,xml_connect_03);
--->
</script>
dsSoftware is my XML Data set connection string, and by using
document.write, the correct string i want is displayed (in my
html), but - as you can probably guess by now(!) - i want it to
display in the actual Javascript code so i can connect to the xml
file and display the contents depending on the url variable sent.
Is this possible, and if so, am i going about it the right
way? I am not the most proficient at JavaScript, so may have some
ugly code (and not even 100% that this can even be done)!!
Just to give you an outline as to why i am doing this - my
XML file has different categories within it for different products.
I send the category name via a url variable to another page
(containing the above code) that will display the appropriate
category information depending on what url variable is sent.
Cheers in advance for any help.

Answer 1

Me again!
Sorry to keep updating, but i have now surpassed my last
question and got the alert to work correctly. The question i have
now regards the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
var params = Spry.Utils.getLocationParamsAsObject();
var dsSoftware = new
Spry.Data.XMLDataSet("assets/xml/toolkit.xml", "toolkit/section");
//If the URL parameter 'software' has a value, set the XPath
that includes a filter and then load the data.
if (params.software){
dsSoftware.setXPath("toolkit/section[name =
'"+params.software+"']/product");
dsSoftware.loadData();
//alert(params.software);
//-->
</script>
Everything seems to work without error, but i cannot load my
xml file. The problem, i think, is that my xml heirachy is as
follows:
"toolkit/section/section_name/product"
section_name is unique for each section, and that is what i
am trying to pass through the url variable, so i can display all
the products from that section.
Can anyone tell me what i am doing wrong?
Cheers in advance - again!!