var ARA = window.ARA || {};
  ARA.dom = ARA.dom || {};
  
  

spanify receives a DOM node reference (or an ID to one), iterates over all of it's child nodes and wraps each character of the text nodes that it encounters with a span. By default only first level text nodes are processed. It can deep scan however and process all child text nodes. It returns nothing as it directly modifies the DOM.
parameter: {String/Object} el An element ID or element reference in the DOM
parameter: {Bool} deep (Optional), default is false. If true, all child nodes will be spanified. If false, then only first level text nodes will be spanified.

  
  ARA.dom.spanify = function(el, deep){
          el = ARA.dom.getElement(el);
          deep = !!deep;
          /*
          // spanify all child text nodes of el
          for(var i=0; i<el.childNodes.length; i++){
                  if(el.childNodes[i].nodeType != 3) return false;
                  var str = el.childNodes[i];
                  for
          }
  	*/
  }
  
  

getElement receives an element of unknown type and determines whether it's an element ID or a reference to an element in the DOM. If it's an ID it fetches and returns a reference to the element in the DOM with that ID. If it's a reference to an element in the DOM it just returns it without doing anything.
parameter: {String/Object} el An element ID or element reference in the DOM
returns: {Object}

  
  ARA.dom.getElement = function(el){
          switch(typeof el){
                  case "string":
                          return document.getElementById(el);
                  break;
  
                  case "object":
                  default:
                          return el;
                  break;
          }
  }

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