//////////////////////////////////////////////
// DOM Builder

/*
Copyright (c) 2006 Dan Webb

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated 
documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation 
the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, 
and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial 
portions of the Software.

*/

DomBuilder = {
  IE_TRANSLATIONS : {
    'class' : 'className',
    'for' : 'htmlFor'
  },
  ieAttrSet : function(a, i, el) {
    var trans;
    if (trans = this.IE_TRANSLATIONS[i]) el[trans] = a[i];
    else if (i == 'style') el.style.cssText = a[i];
    else if (i.match(/^on/)) el[i] = new Function(a[i]);
    else el.setAttribute(i, a[i]);
  },
	apply : function(o) { 
	  o = o || {};
		var els = ("p|div|span|strong|em|img|table|tr|td|th|thead|tbody|tfoot|pre|code|" + 
					   "h1|h2|h3|h4|h5|h6|ul|ol|li|form|input|textarea|legend|fieldset|" + 
					   "select|option|blockquote|cite|br|hr|dd|dl|dt|address|a|button|abbr|acronym|" +
					   "script|link|style|bdo|ins|del|object|param|col|colgroup|optgroup|caption|" + 
					   "label|dfn|kbd|samp|var").split("|");
    var el, i=0;
		while (el = els[i++]) o[el.toUpperCase()] = DomBuilder.tagFunc(el);
		return o;
	},
	tagFunc : function(tag) {
	  return function() {
	    var a = arguments, at, ch; a.slice = [].slice; if (a.length>0) { 
	    if (a[0].nodeName || typeof a[0] == "string") ch = a; 
	    else { at = a[0]; ch = a.slice(1); } }
	    return DomBuilder.elem(tag, at, ch);
	  }
  },
	elem : function(e, a, c) {
		a = a || {}; c = c || [];
		var isIE = navigator.userAgent.match(/MSIE/)
		var el = document.createElement((isIE && a.name)?"<" + e + " name=" + a.name + ">":e);
		for (var i in a) {
		  if (typeof a[i] != 'function') {
		    if (isIE) this.ieAttrSet(a, i, el);
		    else el.setAttribute(i, a[i]);
		  }
	  }
		for (var i=0; i<c.length; i++) {
			if (typeof c[i] == 'string') c[i] = document.createTextNode(c[i]);
			el.appendChild(c[i]);
		} 
		return el;
	}
}

// end DOM Builder stuff
//////////////////////////////////////////////



// takes a string of *valid xhtml* and converts to DOM tree
function toDOM(HTMLstring) {
	
	var d = document.createElement('div');
	d.innerHTML = HTMLstring;
	var docFrag = document.createDocumentFragment();
	 
	while (d.firstChild) {
		docFrag.appendChild(d.firstChild);
	};
	 
	return docFrag;
}

// IE Fix
function toDOMScript(script){

	var d = document.createElement('div');
	d.innerHTML = script;
	
	var docFrag = document.createDocumentFragment();
	docFrag.appendChild(d);
	
	return(false);
	
}