API to return html as string about jquery-tmpl HOT 4 OPEN

<script type="text/javascript">
    var somedata = [
        { name: "John", condition:"a>b" },
        { name: "Pete", condition:"b<a" }
    ];

    var tmplFn = $( "#personTmpl" ).template();

    var xmlResult = $.map( somedata, function( item ) {
        return tmplFn( $, { data: item } );
    }).join("");

</script>

Of course, although the above is reasonably easy to use, it is not at all discoverable. We should consider providing a discoverable API for this.

Note that calling tmpl() does indeed create DOM elements, and even adds jQuery data expandos to them, so even if you get the HTML string of the result, it will not be clean.

The above approach does not use the DOM at all, and so can also run on the server, etc. For attribute strings you may have characters that would be HTML encoded (as in my example above), so the {{html foo}} tag is appropriate in the template, rather than ${foo}.