// script.aculo.us builder.js v1.7.1_beta3, Fri May 25 17:19:41 +0200 2007

// Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Thomas Fuchs (http://script.aculo.us, http://mir.aculo.us)
//
// script.aculo.us is freely distributable under the terms of an MIT-style license.
// For details, see the script.aculo.us web site: http://script.aculo.us/

var Builder = {
 NODEMAP: {
 AREA: 'map',
 CAPTION: 'table',
 COL: 'table',
 COLGROUP: 'table',
 LEGEND: 'fieldset',
 OPTGROUP: 'select',
 OPTION: 'select',
 PARAM: 'object',
 TBODY: 'table',
 TD: 'table',
 TFOOT: 'table',
 TH: 'table',
 THEAD: 'table',
 TR: 'table'
 },
 // note: For Firefox < 1.5, OPTION and OPTGROUP tags are currently broken,
 // due to a Firefox bug
 node: function(elementName) {
 elementName = elementName.toUpperCase();
 
 // try innerHTML approach
 var parentTag = this.NODEMAP[elementName] || 'div';
 var parentElement = document.createElement(parentTag);
 try { // prevent IE "feature": http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2707
 parentElement.innerHTML = "<" + elementName + "></" + elementName + ">";
 } catch(e) {}
 var element = parentElement.firstChild || null;
 
 // see if browser added wrapping tags
 if(element && (element.tagName.toUpperCase() != elementName))
 element = element.getElementsByTagName(elementName)[0];
 
 // fallback to createElement approach
 if(!element) element = document.createElement(elementName);
 
 // abort if nothing could be created
 if(!element) return;

 // attributes (or text)
 if(arguments[1])
 if(this._isStringOrNumber(arguments[1]) ||
 (arguments[1] instanceof Array) ||
 arguments[1].tagName) {
 this._children(element, arguments[1]);
 } else {
 var attrs = this._attributes(arguments[1]);
 if(attrs.length) {
 try { // prevent IE "feature": http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/2707
 parentElement.innerHTML = "<" +elementName + " " +
 attrs + "></" + elementName + ">";
 } catch(e) {}
 element = parentElement.firstChild || null;
 // workaround firefox 1.0.X bug
 if(!element) {
 element = document.createElement(elementName);
 for(attr in arguments[1]) 
 element[attr == 'class' ? 'className' : attr] = arguments[1][attr];
 }
 if(element.tagName.toUpperCase() != elementName)
 element = parentElement.getElementsByTagName(elementName)[0];
 }
 } 

 // text, or array of children
 if(arguments[2])
 this._children(element, arguments[2]);

 return element;
 },
 _text: function(text) {
 return document.createTextNode(text);
 },

 ATTR_MAP: {
 'className': 'class',
 'htmlFor': 'for'
 },

 _attributes: function(attributes) {
 var attrs = [];
 for(attribute in attributes)
 attrs.push((attribute in this.ATTR_MAP ? this.ATTR_MAP[attribute] : attribute) +
 '="' + attributes[attribute].toString().escapeHTML().gsub(/"/,'&quot;') + '"');
 return attrs.join(" ");
 },
 _children: function(element, children) {
 if(children.tagName) {
 element.appendChild(children);
 return;
 }
 if(typeof children=='object') { // array can hold nodes and text
 children.flatten().each( function(e) {
 if(typeof e=='object')
 element.appendChild(e)
 else
 if(Builder._isStringOrNumber(e))
 element.appendChild(Builder._text(e));
 });
 } else
 if(Builder._isStringOrNumber(children))
 element.appendChild(Builder._text(children));
 },
 _isStringOrNumber: function(param) {
 return(typeof param=='string' || typeof param=='number');
 },
 build: function(html) {
 var element = this.node('div');
 $(element).update(html.strip());
 return element.down();
 },
 dump: function(scope) { 
 if(typeof scope != 'object' && typeof scope != 'function') scope = window; //global scope 
 
 var tags = ("A ABBR ACRONYM ADDRESS APPLET AREA B BASE BASEFONT BDO BIG BLOCKQUOTE BODY " +
 "BR BUTTON CAPTION CENTER CITE CODE COL COLGROUP DD DEL DFN DIR DIV DL DT EM FIELDSET " +
 "FONT FORM FRAME FRAMESET H1 H2 H3 H4 H5 H6 HEAD HR HTML I IFRAME IMG INPUT INS ISINDEX "+
 "KBD LABEL LEGEND LI LINK MAP MENU META NOFRAMES NOSCRIPT OBJECT OL OPTGROUP OPTION P "+
 "PARAM PRE Q S SAMP SCRIPT SELECT SMALL SPAN STRIKE STRONG STYLE SUB SUP TABLE TBODY TD "+
 "TEXTAREA TFOOT TH THEAD TITLE TR TT U UL VAR").split(/\s+/);
 
 tags.each( function(tag){ 
 scope[tag] = function() { 
 return Builder.node.apply(Builder, [tag].concat($A(arguments))); 
 } 
 });
 }
}