var Bounce = new BOUNCE('Bounce');

var SORT_ASCENDING = 1;
var SORT_DESCENDING = -1;
var SORT_ALPHABETIC = 'a';
var SORT_NUMERIC = '1';


function BOUNCE (varName) {
	this.varName = varName;
	this.body = (document.body || document.documentElement);
	this.strings = [];
	this.root = null;
	this.apiUrl = "http://feeds.bounceisfree.com/api";	
	this.searchUrl = "http://search.bouncebase.com.s43642.gridserver.com/";
	this.snippetLength = 120;
	
	//pre-compiled regexps
	this.date_ISO8601 = /\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T/;
	this.date_ISO8601_split = /T|\+|Z|-|\./;
	this.htmlTag = /<[A-Za-z\/][^<>]*>/ig;
}