--- a/browser_side/tools.py	Sat Nov 09 10:23:33 2013 +0100
+++ b/browser_side/tools.py	Sat Nov 09 10:24:03 2013 +0100
@@ -21,12 +21,21 @@
 
 from pyjamas.ui.DragWidget import DragWidget
 import re
+from nativedom import NativeDOM
+from sat.tools.frontends import xml
+
+dom = NativeDOM()
 
 def html_sanitize(html):
     """Naive sanitization of HTML"""
     return html.replace('<','&lt;').replace('>','&gt;')
 
 
+def inlineRoot(xhtml):
+    """ make root element inline """
+    doc = dom.parseString(xhtml)
+    return xml.inlineRoot(doc)
+
 def addURLToText(string):
     """Check a text for what looks like an URL and make it clickable. Regexp
     from http://daringfireball.net/2010/07/improved_regex_for_matching_urls"""