It may turn out to be too verbose, but in terms of my motivation, and conciseness vs. verbosity, the goal was to achieve:

1) conciseness of expression of intent ... I feel that this is the most important thing to get accross 2) conciseness of implementation logic: having chainable condition statements would hopefully lose a lot of if...else... conditionals within implementation logic 3) conciseness of conceptual mapping of the bound element to its name, eg. 'The "New Post" link" vs. "a#new-post" ...

Again, this is all just an argument from motivation rather than experience. It may turn out that this was a really, really bad idea.