You can use location.search, which gives something like "?cd=1" which you 
can then parse for the actual id.

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Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name


"ignignokt" <davis929@g...> wrote in message 
news:1170425765.272405.95330@s......
> On Feb 2, 7:48 am, "Joe Fawcett" <joefawc...@newsgroup.nospam> wrote:
>> You cannot do what you want using only linked stylesheets. The menu can 
>> be
>> like this but the details page needs to a regular HTML page that reads 
>> the
>> querystring and then uses script to set a parameter in the XSLT based on 
>> the
>> CD chosen.
>> So your links are like CdDetailsPage.html?cd=1. Your HTML reads the cd 
>> id,
>> sets a parameter in the XSLT to 1 and then transforms.
>> See the msxml sdk for how to use setParameter.
>>
>> --
>>
>> Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)http://joe.fawcett.name
>>
>> "ignignokt" <davis...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:1170347623.159027.196680@h......
>>
>>
>>
>> >I would like some help on the best way of acheiving the following: I
>> > am trying to create a html document with 2 frames that call a
>> > seperate
>> > XML file for each frame. I would like the top frame to have
>> > hyperlinks
>> > and when you click on the specific hyperlink, it will display the
>> > information in the main frame.
>>
>> > Example: I have many different CDs. The links on the top frame are
>> > "CD
>> > 1", "CD 2", "CD 3", etc. When you click on "CD 1" all the information
>> > for CD 1 is listed in the main frame.
>>
>> > My question is how do you sort the information when you click on the
>> > hyperlink in one XML to the data in the other XML file.
>>
>> > Here is my main XML file:
>> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="vid.xsl"?>
>> > <catalog>
>> > <disc>
>> > <file>
>> > <label>AVI 1</label>
>> > <name>lagulap2.mpg</name><size>6.11 MB</size>
>> > <created>1/25/2007 9:10:39 AM</created>
>> > <image01>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\lagulap201.jpg</image01>
>> > <image02>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\lagulap202.jpg</image02>
>> > <image03>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\lagulap203.jpg</image03>
>> > <image04>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\lagulap204.jpg</image04>
>> > <image05>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\lagulap205.jpg</image05>
>> > <image06>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\lagulap206.jpg</image06>
>> > </file>
>> > <file>
>> > <label>AVI 1</label>
>> > <name>ronyoung.avi</name>
>> > <size>5.45 MB</size>
>> > <created>1/25/2007 9:15:40 AM</created>
>> > <image01>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\ronyoung01.jpg</image01>
>> > <image02>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\ronyoung02.jpg</image02>
>> > <image03>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\ronyoung03.jpg</image03>
>> > <image04>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\ronyoung04.jpg</image04>
>> > <image05>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\ronyoung05.jpg</image05>
>> > <image06>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\ronyoung06.jpg</image06>
>> > </file>
>> > <file>
>> > </disc>
>> > <disc>
>> > <label>AVI 2</label>
>> > <name>sc-comm.mpeg</name>
>> > <size>4.56 MB</size>
>> > <created>1/25/2007 9:12:39 AM</created>
>> > <image01>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\sc-comm01.jpg</image01>
>> > <image02>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\sc-comm02.jpg</image02>
>> > <image03>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\sc-comm03.jpg</image03>
>> > <image04>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\sc-comm04.jpg</image04>
>> > <image05>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\sc-comm05.jpg</image05>
>> > <image06>c:\videocatalog\images\AVI 1\sc-comm06.jpg</image06>
>> > </file>
>> > </disc>
>> > </catalog>- Hide quoted text -
>>
>> - Show quoted text -
>
> Thanks for your help.  One question, how do I get the HTML to read the
> querystring?
>
>