DOM._createDOMFromTemplate = function()

in assets/scripts/api.simile-widgets.org/ajax/2.2.4/simile-ajax-api-debug.js [1007:1082]
64 lines of code
27 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

DOM._createDOMFromTemplate = function(templateNode, result, parentElmt) {
    if (templateNode == null) {
        /*
        var node = doc.createTextNode("--null--");
        if (parentElmt != null) {
            parentElmt.appendChild(node);
        }
        return node;
        */
        return null;
    } else if (typeof templateNode != "object") {
        var node = document.createTextNode(templateNode);
        if (parentElmt != null) {
            parentElmt.appendChild(node);
        }
        return node;
    } else {
        var elmt = null;
        if ("tag" in templateNode) {
            var tag = templateNode.tag;
            if (parentElmt != null) {
                if (tag == "tr") {
                    elmt = parentElmt.insertRow(parentElmt.rows.length);
                } else if (tag == "td") {
                    elmt = parentElmt.insertCell(parentElmt.cells.length);
                }
            }
            if (elmt == null) {
                elmt = tag == "input" ?
                    DOM.createInputElement(templateNode.type) :
                    document.createElement(tag);
                    
                if (parentElmt != null) {
                    parentElmt.appendChild(elmt);
                }
            }
        } else {
            elmt = templateNode.elmt;
            if (parentElmt != null) {
                parentElmt.appendChild(elmt);
            }
        }
        
        for (var attribute in templateNode) {
            var value = templateNode[attribute];
            
            if (attribute == "field") {
                result[value] = elmt;
                
            } else if (attribute == "className") {
                elmt.className = value;
            } else if (attribute == "id") {
                elmt.id = value;
            } else if (attribute == "title") {
                elmt.title = value;
            } else if (attribute == "type" && elmt.tagName == "input") {
                // do nothing
            } else if (attribute == "style") {
                for (n in value) {
                    var v = value[n];
                    if (n == "float") {
                        n = Platform.browser.isIE ? "styleFloat" : "cssFloat";
                    }
                    elmt.style[n] = v;
                }
            } else if (attribute == "children") {
                for (var i = 0; i < value.length; i++) {
                    DOM._createDOMFromTemplate(value[i], result, elmt);
                }
            } else if (attribute != "tag" && attribute != "elmt") {
                elmt.setAttribute(attribute, value);
            }
        }
        return elmt;
    }
}