function findSelectedValue(element) {
    retVal = '';
    try {
        //retVal = document.getElementById(element).value;
        retVal = document.getElementsByName(element)[0].value;
    }
    catch (err) {

    }
    return retVal;
}

function findQuantity(elemID) {
    var quantity = undefined;
    try {
        quantity = document.getElementById(elemID).value;
    } catch (err) { }
    if (quantity == undefined) {
        quantity = 1;
    }
    return quantity;
}


var Url = {

    // public method for url encoding
    encode: function (string) {
        return escape(this._utf8_encode(string));
    },

    // public method for url decoding
    decode: function (string) {
        return this._utf8_decode(unescape(string));
    },

    // private method for UTF-8 encoding
    _utf8_encode: function (string) {
        string = string.replace(/\r\n/g, "\n");
        var utftext = "";

        for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {

            var c = string.charCodeAt(n);

            if (c < 128) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
            }
            else if ((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }
            else {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }
        }
        return utftext;
    },

    // private method for UTF-8 decoding
    _utf8_decode: function (utftext) {
        var string = "";
        var i = 0;
        var c = c1 = c2 = 0;

        while (i < utftext.length) {

            c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);

            if (c < 128) {
                string += String.fromCharCode(c);
                i++;
            }
            else if ((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i + 1);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
                i += 2;
            }
            else {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i + 1);
                c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i + 2);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
                i += 3;
            }
        }
        return string;
    }
}