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Browser Normal (ms) Fragment (ms) Firefox 3.0.1 90 47 Safari 3.1.2 156 44 Opera 9.51 208 95 IE 6 401 140 IE 7 230 61 IE 8b1 120 40

As it turns out: A method that is largely ignored in modern web development can provide some serious (2-3x) performance improvements to your DOM manipulation.

import groovy.xml.* def html = DOMBuilder.newInstance().html { head { title (class:'mytitle', 'Test') } body { p (class:'mystyle', 'This is a test.') } } use (groovy.xml.dom.DOMCategory.class) { assert html.head.title.text() == 'Test' assert html.body.p.text() == 'This is a test.' assert html.find{ it.tagName == 'body' }.tagName == 'body' assert html.getElementsByTagName('*').grep{ it.'@class' }.size() == 2 }

FlyDOM aims to be an easy-to-use plugin for jQuery that makes generating dynamic content quick and easy.