convert html to javascript [closed]

Question

Does anybody know if there is a tool around that can convert html to javascript.

For example:

<div>
</div>

would convert to

aDiv = document.createElement('div');
document.appendChild(aDiv);

etc

I'm am doing a few html templates for UI components and am using MooShell for prototyping. It would be great to be able to auto-generate the javascript that will build the component's html.

Thanks

Answer 1

I'd suggest taking a look at John Resig's pure javascript HTML parser. It consists of a SAX style parser for HTML and includes an XML serializer, a DOM builder and a DOM creator. Each takes a string of HTML as input.

In particular, the HTMLtoDOM method could easily be repurposed to return the string of javascript required to build the DOM for any input string of HTML.