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Natively no, but writing some JS code that will take an array of objects and turn it into a DocumentFragment is a trivial exercise. And once you're representing your HTML as data, looping and data binding are trivial.

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You're right. But how often do you want to rewrite that code? It may be worth accepting a few -isms (and the associated performance hit) in order to be able to write something like this instead of having to bang out the imperative version:

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