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+var cleanRegex = /^([^\/]+?\/)?[^\:]+?\:/;
+
+// SnippetTree constructor
+function SnippetTree (obj) {
+  this.children = [];
+  this.data = obj;
+
+  // Replace title
+  this.cleanTitle = function (title) {
+    return title.replace(cleanRegex, "");
+  };
+
+  // Add new child to tree
+  this.addChild = function (childData) {
+    var c = new SnippetTree (childData);
+    this.children.push(c);
+    return c;
+  };
+
+  // Recursively parse children
+  this.parseChildren = function (children) {
+    for (var i in children) {
+      var c = children[i];
+      if (c.nodeType === 1) {
+	if (c.getAttribute("title")) {
+	  var title = this.cleanTitle(c.getAttribute("title"));
+	  var childTree = this.addChild({ type : title });
+	  if (c.hasChildNodes())
+	    childTree.parseChildren(c.childNodes);
+	}
+	else if (c.hasChildNodes())
+	  this.parseChildren(c.childNodes);
+      }
+      else if (c.nodeType === 3)
+	if (c.nodeValue.match(/[-a-z0-9]/i)) {
+	  this.addChild({
+	    type : "leaf",
+	    word : c.nodeValue
+	  });
+	};
+    };
+    return this;
+  };
+};
+
+// Make tree from snippet
+function translateTree (snippet) {
+  var html = document.createElement("tree");
+  html.innerHTML = snippet;
+  return new SnippetTree({ type : "ROOT" }).parseChildren(html.childNodes);
+};
+
+