Femto JS Templating

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= Femto Javascript Template just 325 bytes = 
It can't be any simpler... sized under 325 bytes, it supports looping and direct DOM insertion... Hope you enjoy

Femto.js

/**
The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2010 Zohaib Sibt-e-Hassan

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
THE SOFTWARE.
**/
//No library dependencies just 325 bytes!!! fitb => fill in the blanks
function fitb(b,c,d){var e=/(:\w+)/g,iht=b.innerHTML,tpl=((b._$$f=b._$$f||iht))||b;d=d||{};return(iht&&(b.innerHTML=((d.append&&b.innerHTML)||"")+(d.pre||"")+fitb(tpl,c,d)+(d.post||"")))||(c.length&&c.map(function(a){return fitb(tpl,a,d)}).join(d.glue||""))||(tpl.replace(e,function(a){return(c[a.substr(1)]||d.none||"")}))};

test.html

  <div id="area1">  </div>
  <hr/>
  <div id="area2">  </div>
  <hr/>
  <div id="area3"> This DOM element was :what </div>
  <hr/>
  <ul id="list">:v</ul>

TestClient.js

   //Test sutie code                                                                                         
window.onload = function() {
    // Simple string fill
    var res = fitb('hello :name this was a simple :type',
         {'name': 'WORLD', 'type': 'string'});
    
    // Simple string fill with automatic looping
    res = fitb('hello :name this was a simple :type',
               //Yep passing a simple array results in looping
               [{'name': 'Again', 'type': 'array'}, {'name': 'Looping', 'type': 'array'}],
               {'glue': '<br/>'});
    document.getElementById('area2').innerHTML=res;
  
    // Direct manipulation on DOM elements
    fitb(document.getElementById('area3'), {'what': 'manipulated'});

    // Additional options :D
    fitb(document.getElementById('list') ,
         [{'v': 'Some dummy element'},{'v': 'Another one'}],
         {'pre': '<li>', 'post': '</li>','glue': '</li><li>'});
  
    fitb(document.getElementById('list') ,
         [{'v': 'Append mode is also there'},{'v': 'Yep templates are cached too'}],
         {'pre': '<li>', 'post': '</li>', 'glue': '</li><li>', 'append': true});
};