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Asked: 2026-05-25T17:48:31+00:00

I’m building a simple client-side survey tool. Users create and edit short surveys and

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I’m building a simple client-side survey tool. Users create and edit short surveys and export them as XML (or something similar) when they’re done.

I started off using jquery, but realized that it was going to be a headache to map back and forth between the HTML DOM and the underlying XML. It’s easy to edit one or the other, but keeping them in sync is a pain.

Anyway, this seems like a standard MVC problem, with a few extra wrinkles:

  • I want to do all this work clientside.
  • Lightweight is definitely better.

Any thoughts? I looked into backbone, but it seems to be build around REST-ful interactions with a server-side model, which doesn’t work well for me. JavascriptMVC looked really bulky for something this small.

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  1. Editorial Team

    you should have a look at KnockoutJS, which is a JavaScript MVVM framework, which lends itself very well to what your doing.

    You can use jQuery to turn the xml into JavaScript objects and add a little Knockout model magic and your UI will automatically update itself when the model changes.

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