> 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.

The problem with that technique is that, in the end, you still have to
do a 1-to-1 correlation from your XML elements to your HTML - and it's
never as "simple" as giving everything an ID and just calling it a
day.

Additionally, an XML data island would only work if 1) You're actually
using XHTML and 2) You've defined a namespace or DTD to hold all the
data. And in the end, it would still render in browsers that don't
have CSS support (or screenreaders, or text-based browsers, etc.).

This plugin implements the only (for now) three methods that
gracefully degrade in older browsers.

--John

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