Converting HTML to JSON with jQuery. Just a gist...

html2json.html

<dl>
  <dt>selector</dt>
    <dd>dl</dd>
  <dt>apply</dt>
    <dd>
      <ul>
        <li>
          <dl>
            <dt>selector</dt>
              <dd>&gt; dt</dd>
            <dt>key</dt>
              <dd></dd>
            <dt>value</dt>
              <dd>~ dd</dd>
          </dl>
        </li>     
      </ul>
    </dd>
</dl>

html2json.js

function jquery2json(nodes) {
  var result = {};
  nodes.find("dl").find("> dt").each(function (match) {
    var key = match.text();
    var value = match.find("~ dd");
    result[match.text()] = jquery2json(value) || value.text();
  });
  return result;
}

html2json.json

[
  {
    selector: "dl",
    apply:
    [
      {
        selector: "> dt",
        key: "",
        value: "~ dd",
      }
    ]
  },
]