Query or param passing with Javascript

[Kaele7]

Hello, I've got a bit of a problem and have been searching for hours for a solution. Basically I have a unique layout for a blog section of my website that is purely XML/XSL. I have a for-each loop that prints out all the blog entries from an external xml file, what I'm trying to do is make a comments link that will display only the current post as well as a comment box.

My main problem is that I want the page to be able to update itself automatically when I put in a new entry into the external xml file without having to go in and recode.

My first thought was to pass a string query and let javascript do all the work but that isn't very stable. I'm just trying to figure out how to change a param node parent element with javascript through an onclick function. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here are the appropriate pages:

http://www.lucas.petherbridge.org/weblog.xml

http://www.lucas.petherbridge.org/layout/weblog.xsl

http://www.lucas.petherbridge.org/layout/includes.xsl

 

[Kaele7]

So far what I've got are a few <xsl:if> statements dividing up the sections on the page. What I'm still trying to figure out is how to pass a query string from a javascript variable into a form that the xsl can recognize. Two options are passing a paramater, or changing an xml node. I've tried the latter but it's only a temporary change that is only applied locally in a javascript variable.

var URL1 = unescape(location.href) // get current URL in plain ASCII
var xstart1 = URL1.lastIndexOf("?") + 1
var xend1 = URL1.length
var current_page;

if (URL1.lastIndexOf("?") != 0) {
current_page = URL1.substring(xstart1,xend1);
} else {
current_page = "&#160;"
}
document.write(current_page);
var xmlDoc=loadXMLDoc("/strings/comment_page.xml");

var x = xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("value")[0].childNodes[0];
x.nodeValue = current_page;
var txt = x.nodeValue;

There has to be another option besides putting my entire page in a xml processor script. Any ideas?