DomGenerator = {

appendChildrenToElement: function(element, array) {
  for (var item=0; item < array.length; item++)
      element.appendChild (array[item]);
  }
};

// create one function per element type
(function () 
{
  var elemTypes = ['A','B','BIG','BLOCKQUOTE','BR','BUTTON','CAPTION','CANVAS',
      'CENTER','CODE','DD','DIV','EM','EMBED','FIELDSET','FONT','FORM',
      'HEAD','HR','I','IFRAME','IMG','INPUT','LABEL','LEGEND','LI',
      'LINK','MAP','NOBR','OBJECT','OL','OPTION','P','PARAM','PRE',
      'RT','RUBY','S','SELECT','SMALL','SPAN','STRIKE','STRONG','SUB',
      'SUP','TABLE','TBODY','TD','TEXTAREA','TFOOT','TH','THEAD','TR',
      'UL','WBR','H1','H2','H3'];

  for (var x=0; x<elemTypes.length; x++) {
    (function () {
      var elemType = elemTypes[x];
      DomGenerator[elemType] = function() {
        var i, j, h, s, p, c, n = arguments.length,
            elem = document.createElement(elemType);
        for (i=0; i < n; i++) {
            c = arguments[i];
            if (c.tagName)
                elem.appendChild(c);
            else if (typeof(c) == "string")
                elem.appendChild(document.createTextNode(c));
            else if (c.html) {
                var d = document.createElement (elemType);
                d.innerHTML = c.html;
                var a = [], len = d.childNodes.length;
                for (j=len-1; j >= 0; j--)
                    a[j] = d.removeChild(d.childNodes[j]);
                for (j=0; j < len; j++)
                    elem.appendChild(a[j]);
                }
            else {
                if ((s = c.style) !== undefined)
                  for (h in s)
                    elem.style[h] = s[h];
                for (h in c) {
                  p = c[h];
                  if (p != s)
                    elem[h] = p;
                  }
                }
            }
        return elem;
        }
      })();
    }
  })();