the more I think about my problem, the more I believe my issue is a standard noobie jquery issue instead of a jqGrid plugin problem. But then again.

Eventually, this click on a row is supposed to push xml elements for a particular bullet/weapon into a accordion for further user viewing or analysis. but I need to find out what is in the grid's row as it stands now. I.E. do I need to pass a variable to my accordion and have the accordion go out and get the remaining data or has the grid already recovered my data and I just need to place the selected row data into its final resting place.

Am I on the right track with my onselectRow scripting?? When I run it, I get an error in the alert box that says "[object Object]". Where is my thinking off???

Here is what I have so far. Only the chemical and bullet/shotgun (under Small Arms) menu items work so far.

1. $('#bullet').click(function() {
   $('#searchResults').jqGrid('GridUnload');
   $('#searchResults').jqGrid({
   url: 'weaponLib/AME_sa-bullet.xml',
   datatype: 'xml',
   colNames:["DODIC","NSN", "Size/Caliber", "Nomenclature"],
   colModel:[
   {name:"dodic",index:"dodic", xmlmap:"DODIC", width:30, align:"center", search: true, stype:"text"},
   {name:"NSN",index:"NSN", xmlmap:"transData>NSN", width:40, align:"center", search: true, stype: "float"},
   {name:"size", index:"size", xmlmap:"size",width:30, align:"center", search: true, stype: "float"},
   {name:"nomenclature",index:"nomenclature", xmlmap:"nomenclature", width:120, align:"left", search: false, sorttype: "text"}
   ],
   height:250,
   width: 900,
   viewrecords: true,
   xmlReader: {
   root : "smallArms",
   row: "bullet",
   repeatitems: false,
   id: "[saId]"
   },
   onSelectRow: function(id) {
   var gsr = $('#searchResults').jqGrid('getGridParam', 'selrow');
   if (gsr) {
   var data = $('#searchResults').jqGrid('getRowData', gsr);
   alert(data);
   };
   },
   sortname: 'dodic',
   rowNum: -1,
   altRows: true,
   pager: '#gridNavBar',
   caption: "Bullet Results"
   });
   $('#searchResults').jqGrid('navGrid', '#gridNavBar', {search: true, edit: false, del: false, add: false});
   $('#welcome').css('display', 'none');
   $('#theGrid').css('display', 'inline');
   });