jQuery - Best Practice for creating complex HTML Fragments

Question

Is there a general best practice for creating somewhat complex HTML elements in jQuery? I\'ve tried a few different ways.

First I tried using createElement and chaining

Answer 1

John Resig (creator of jQuery) suggested using this templating method back in 2008. It's actually got some pretty cool features:

then retrieving it using...

var results = document.getElementById("results");
results.innerHTML = tmpl("item_tmpl", dataObject);

See here for full details:
http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-micro-templating/