I'm on a serious quest to simplify the XSL templates which power PBooks, and one of the tactics I'm employing is the use of jQuery, a popular javascript library.
jQuery is already used extensively throughout PBooks, but mostly for Ajax calls and fancy plugins like tablesorter. My strategy is to deploy dynamic javascript and jQuery plugins / extensions via Nexista, and tailor them for bookkeeping and accounting within PBooks.
Based upon the positive results I discovered with the xhtml2dom script, I have high expectations for this effort.
Note: although this work isn't directly related to the release of PBooks 0.13, I am realizing that the complexity of the XSL files are a significant hurdle to all PBooks development and it needs to be resolved. I've known this for some time, I just did not have the solution. Now that I've found a possible solution, its time to give it a go!