I needed to bind some data to a table. So I built a little script that does it. I simple create the rows template:

<table id="template_container" style="display:none;">	<tr><td id="row1"></td><td><span id="row2"></span></td><td id="row3"></td></tr></table>

The id inside the template identifies the column that I want to bind.

I also need to create the output container:

<table id="template_output" border="1"></table>

So my datasource looks like this:

var data = {result:[{row1:"Bruno", row2:"Ricardo", row3:"Figueiredo"}, {row1:"Sandra", row2:"Isabel", row3:"Lourenço"}]};

Each property name on the object is the id of the column.

Then, all i need to do is bind: 

var t = new Template($("template_container"));t.set_data(data.result);t.bind($("template_output"));

or inline:

new Template($("template_container"), data.result, $("template_output")).bind();

So there you have it.

Source code:

var Template = new Class({	initialize: function()	{		$each(arguments, function(argument, idx){			if (idx == 0) this._template = $(argument).getFirst();			if (idx == 1) this._data = argument;			if (idx == 2) this._container = $(argument);		}, this);	},		set_data: function(data)	{		this._data = data;	},		bind: function(htmlElement)	{		this._parseData(this._data, htmlElement || this._container);	},		_parseData: function(data, container)	{		if(data.forEach)		{			data.forEach(function(row){				var line = this._template.clone();				for (var column in row)				{					this._setDataContainer(line, column, row[column]);				}				line.removeAttribute("id");				line.style.display = "";				container.adopt(line);			}, this);		}	},		_setDataContainer:function(line, dataID, data)	{		$each(line.childNodes, function(element){				if (element.id && element.id == dataID)				{					element.appendText(data);					element.removeAttribute("id");					}				else if (element.childNodes)				{					this._setDataContainer(element, dataID, data);				}			}, this);	},		_isArray: function(object)	{		return (object.constructor.toString().indexOf("Array")> 0)	}});