var html2dom = {
  result: new String(),

  getDOM: function (html, appendTo)
  {
    if (html.length = 0) {
      this.result = "";
      return this.result;
    }
    var root_name = "kindarandomandhopefullyunique" +
      Math.round((Math.random() * 99999)+10000);
    html = "<" + root_name + ">" +
      html +
      "</" + root_name + ">";
    var doc;
    // code for IE
    if (window.ActiveXObject) {
      doc=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
      doc.async="false";
      doc.loadXML(html);
    // code for Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, etc.
    } else {
      var parser=new DOMParser();
      doc=parser.parseFromString(html,"text/xml");
    }
    var root = doc.documentElement;
    if (root.nodeName == 'parsererror') {
      return false;
    }
    if (root.hasChildNodes()) {
      if (appendTo) {
        if (typeof(appendTo) == "object") {
          this.result = "var html2dom_root = " + appendTo + ";";
        } else if (typeof(appendTo) == "string") {
          this.result = 'var html2dom_root = document.getElementById("' + appendTo + '");';
        }
      } else {
        this.result = "var html2dom_root = document.createElement('div');";
      }
      this.result += "\n";
      this.traverse(root, "html2dom_root");
    }
  },

  traverse: function (el, variable)
  {
    var children = el.childNodes;
    var max = children.length;
    for (var i = 0; i < max; i++) {
      var nodeval = this.escape(children[i].nodeValue);
      var newvar = variable + '_' + (i + 1);
      switch (children[i].nodeType) {
        case 1: // element
          newvar += '_' + children[i].nodeName;
          this.result += newvar
            + ' = document.createElement("'
            + children[i].nodeName
            +'");\n';
          if (children[i].attributes) {
            for (var j = 0, a; a = children[i].attributes[j]; j++) {
              //http://whyiesucks.blogspot.com/2006/04/dynamically-changing-classes.html
              if (a['nodeName'] == 'class' && navigator.appName.match(/internet explorer/i)){
                ieVersion = navigator.appVersion.substr(22,1);
                if (ieVersion < 8) {
                  attrName = 'className';
                } else {
                  attrName = a['nodeName'];
                }
              } else {
                 attrName = a['nodeName'];
              }
              this.result += newvar
                +  '.setAttribute("'
                + attrName
                +'", "'
                + this.escape(a['nodeValue'])
                +'");\n';
            }
          }
          break;
        case 3: // text
          newvar += '_text';
          this.result += newvar + ' = document.createTextNode("'+ nodeval +'");\n';
          break;
        case 8: //comment
          newvar += '_comment';
          this.result += newvar + ' = document.createComment("'+ nodeval +'");\n';
          break;
      }
      if (children[i].hasChildNodes()) {
        this.traverse(children[i], newvar);
      }
      this.result += variable + '.appendChild('+ newvar + ');\n';
    }
  },

  escape: function (str)
  {
    if (!str) return null;
    str = str.replace(/\\/g,'\\\\');
    str = str.replace(/\"/g,'\\\"');
    str = str.replace(/\n/g,'\\n');
    str = str.replace(/\r/g,'\\r');
    return str;
  }
}