paging parameter generation

// dprtElement is shorthand for the displayTable 
// displayTable is your displayTag Table id

// dtscElement is short for displaytag sortable column element
// we find that in the for loop that follows
var dtscElement = null;
var headerCells = dprtElement.rows[0].cells;

for( var i = 0; i < headerCells.length; i++ ) {
    var cell = headerCells[i];
    //Name is your sortable column name
    if( cell.innerHTML.match(/Name/i) != null ) {
        dtscElement = cell;         
        break;
    }
}
//Getting the AnchorTag parameterlist    
var displayTagAnchorElement = dtscElement.getElementsByTagName('a')[0];

var queryStringMap = getQueryStringMap( displayTagAnchorElement.search );

for( var key in queryStringMap ) {

 urlpath = urlpath + key + '=' +queryStringMap[key] + '&';
}

openedWindow = window.open(urlpath,'_self','',false);
openedWindow.focus();

// Examine a query string and attempt to return an object that may
// be used as a map (JavaScript associative array) where each key in
// the query string is a property of the object property having the
// same value inidicated by the key of the same name in the query
// string.  Psuedo JavaScript may help explain.  Given a call that
// is effectively something like
//
//    map = getQueryStringMap( '?bar=baz&homer=doh' );
//
//        then
//
//    map['bar'] would return 'baz'
//
//        and
//
//    map['homer'] would return 'doh'
//