I threw together this gist which does your suggestion: https://gist.github.com/2955953 https://gist.github.com/2955953 Use like thus: var tmpl = document.ge

I threw together this gist which does your suggestion: https://gist.github.com/2955953 https://gist.github.com/2955953 Use like thus: var tmpl = document.getElementById('myblog').template;