class Haml::HTML

def initialize(template, options = {})

to a Haml string when +render+ is called.
which can either be a string containing HTML or an Hpricot node,
Creates a new instance of Haml::HTML that will compile the given template, 
def initialize(template, options = {})
  @@options = options
  if template.is_a? Hpricot::Node
    @template = template
  else
    if template.is_a? IO
      template = template.read
    end
    if @@options[:rhtml]
      match_to_html(template, /<%=(.*?)-?%>/m, 'loud')
      match_to_html(template, /<%(.*?)-?%>/m,  'silent')
    end
    method = @@options[:xhtml] ? Hpricot.method(:XML) : method(:Hpricot)
    @template = method.call(template)
  end
end