Poor man's prepare for querySelector

prepare.js

//
// Poor man's prepare for querySelector.
//
// Example:
//   var query = prepare ('#modeler table[data-id=?] tr[data-id=?]');
//   query[0] = entity;
//   query[1] = attribute;
//   var enity_attribute_row = document.querySelector(query);
//
var prepare;
{
  let r = /^([^?]+)\?(.+)$/; // Regular expression to split the query

  prepare = function (query, base)
  {
    if (!base) base = document;
    var q  = []; // List of query fragments
    var qi = 0;  // Query fragment index
    var v  = []; // List of values
    var vi = 0;  // Value index
    var a  = []; // Array containing setters and getters
    var m;       // Regular expression match
    while (query) {
      m = r.exec (query);
      if (m && m[2]) {
        q[qi++] = m[1];
        query   = m[2];
        (function (qi, vi) {
          Object.defineProperty (a, vi, {
            get: function() { return v[vi]; },
            set: function(val) { v[vi] = val; q[qi] = JSON.stringify(val); }});
        })(qi++, vi++);
      } else {
        q[qi++] = query;
        query   = null;
      }
    }
    a.toString = function () { return q.join(''); }
    return a;
  }
}