//object detection to return the correct object depending upon broswer type. Used by the getAXHA(); function.
function getNewHttpObject() {
    var objType = false;
    try {
        objType = new ActiveXObject('Msxml2.XMLHTTP');
    } catch(e) {
        try {
            objType = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLHTTP');
        } catch(e) {
            objType = new XMLHttpRequest();
        }
    }
    return objType;
}

//Function used to update page content with new xhtml fragments by using a javascript object, the dom, and http.
function getAXAH(url,elementContainer){
  var theHttpRequest = getNewHttpObject();
  theHttpRequest.onreadystatechange = function() {processAXAH(elementContainer);};
  theHttpRequest.open("GET", url);
  theHttpRequest.send(false);

    function processAXAH(elementContainer){
       if (theHttpRequest.readyState == 4) {
         if (theHttpRequest.status == 200) {
           document.getElementById(elementContainer).innerHTML = theHttpRequest.responseText;
         } else {
           document.getElementById(elementContainer).innerHTML="<p>Error! There were some problems retrieving the comment list. Please try again.<\/p>";
         }
       }
    }

}