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YQL2DOM jQuery Plugin

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Convert YQL Jason results to a complete HTML Dom
Note: unfortunatly the YQL JSON format is lossy
Info: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/output-xml-json-conversion.html

Warning: this plugin doesn't work in the right manner!
The problem is that there's no way to extract the attributes in the right order
So for example: just a test may arbitrary become testjust a

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/* ---------------------------------------------------------------
 * YQL2DOM Plugin
 *
 * Convert YQL Jason results to a complete HTML Dom
 * Note: unfortunatly the YQL JSON format is lossy
 * Info: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/guide/output-xml-json-conversion.html
 *
 * Warning: this plugin doesn't work in the right manner
 * The problem is that there's no way to extract the attributes in the right order
 * So for example: just a test may arbitrary become testjust a 
 *
 * @return: dom object
 * -------------------------------------------------------------*/ 
 
// in some cases we can only distinguish between tags and attributes by the name
var YQL2DOM_CONTENT_TAGS = ['a','p','h1','h2','h3','h4','h5','h6','div','span','td', 'strong','em','i','b']

$.YQL2DOM = function(jsonResults, tag) {

if(tag === undefined){
			// root
			htmlResult = childrenHTML; 
		}else{
			attributes = (attrID > 0)?' ' + attributes.join(' '):'';
			htmlResult = "<" + tag + attributes + ">" + childrenHTML + "</" + tag + ">";		
		}

}
	
	return htmlResult;
};

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