On Feb 22, 2007, at 18:45, Nathan Young -X ((natyoung - Artizen at
Cisco)) wrote:
> I'll repost with a little explanation because I'm curious if anyone
> has seen something like this. Absent XML4J it's not completely
> crazy to create violent shortcuts for creating nodes
> programmatically. Although it is chained method calls, it comes
> remarkably close to looking like a markup language:
>
> jQuery('#myDiv').append(
> jQuery.DIV({'class':'big'},
> jQuery.SPAN({id:'one','class':'ps'},
> 'Hello Joe', jQuery.I({},'!')
> )
> )
> );
Maybe it's just me but even though I've been doing Javascript quite a
fair bit and for a long time, I don't find the above particularly
attractive. It seems to be begging for E4X, which is IMHO a lot
clearer than the above.
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