jQuery Metadata Plugin
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
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
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