Or just adding an xml data island to your document that has everything you want it it and then parsing that using xpath. This is approach is much cleaner, should validate, and we already have the tools to parse it.
-Steve W. Erik Beeson wrote: > In the case of adding metedata to divs, are these approaches any better > than just using nested hidden spans? > > --Erik > > On 10/31/06, *John Resig* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi Everyone - > > I just finished reading over the massive thread that discusses > embedding metadata into elements for later extraction. Well, I just > finished a plugin to handle all three metadata-extraction methods. > > You can see a demo here: (Uses Firebug debug statements!) > http://john.jquery.com/plugins/meta/ > > It's capable of extracting metadata from classes, random attributes, > and child elements. > > For example, you can do: > <li data="{some:'random', json: 'data'}">...</li> > OR > <li class="someclass {some: 'data'} anotherclass">...</li> > OR > <li><script type="sometype">{some:"json",data:true}</script> ...</li> > > The default is the first method, but you can always change it but > twiddling the options. This means that there is at least one option > here to appease you. > > There's also a bunch of options (like loading data into a single > property and the ability to ignore braces {}). Let me know what you > think of this - I know that I'll probably be using it very soon. > > --John > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com <mailto:discuss@jquery.com> > http://jquery.com/discuss/ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > jQuery mailing list > discuss@jquery.com > http://jquery.com/discuss/ _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
