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How to disect a chunk of HTML and maintain the data

In my HTML I have a list.
The list contains items that the user can select and 'add' to their own container. So each list item has a button, when the button is clicked at the moment it clones the HTML and adds it into their container HTML div.
Is there a way that I can still capture all the data in that HTML snippet but not clone the HTML exactly? I would like it to appear differently.

<li><div class="item itemContainer" >
<div class="itemId">123</div>
<div class="itemTitle">Title 1</div>
<div class="itemContributor">Test Name</div>
</div>
<div class="item pageNum">6</div>
<div class="item itemSelection" ><div class="previewItem"><input type="button" value="Preview" class="previewBtn"></div>
<div class="addToMe"><input type="button" value="ADD >" id="addToMe" class="addToMeBtn"></div>
</div>
<div class="imagePreview hide"><img src="/image.gif"></div>
</li>

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The for example I would like it to end up looking something like this:

<li class="">
                        <div class="item pageNum" title="">6</div>
                        <div class="item itemContainer" >123</div>
                            <div class="itemInfo">
                                <span class="itemTitle">Title 1</span>
                                <span class="itemContributor">Test Name</span>
                            </div>
                        </div>
                        <div class="item handle" title="">
                            <span class="ui-icon ui-icon-carat-2-n-s"></span>
                        </div>
                        <div class="item">
                            <input type="button" value="remove" />
                        </div>
                    </li>

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Chris Stanyon

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Rob

simple enough with a view model using knockoutjs, DEMO: http://jsbin.com/wevaz/1

CODE:
http://jsbin.com/wevaz/1/edit?html,js,output

javascript

var tmp = [
	new item({
		id: '123',
		title: 'title 1',
		contributor: 'test name',
		pagenum: 6,
		selection: 'none'
	}),
	new item({
		id: '456',
		title: 'title 2',
		contributor: 'this contributor',
		pagenum: 3,
		selection: 'none'
	})
];

$(function() {
	viewModel = {
		myoptions: ko.observableArray(tmp),
		myselections: ko.observableArray()
	};
	
	viewModel.selectMe = function(obj) {
		viewModel.myoptions.remove(obj);
		viewModel.myselections.push(obj);
	};
	
	viewModel.removeMe = function(obj) {
		viewModel.myselections.remove(obj);
		viewModel.myoptions.push(obj);		
	};
	
	ko.applyBindings(viewModel);
});

function item(data) {
	this.id = data.id;
	this.title = data.title;
	this.contributor = data.contributor;
	this.pagenum = data.pagenum;
	this.selection = data.selection;
	
}

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html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
	<head>
		<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery.min.js"></script>
		<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
		<script src="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.2.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
		<script src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.1.min.js"></script>
		<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/knockout/3.0.0/knockout-min.js"></script>
		<meta charset="utf-8">
		<title>JS Bin</title>
	</head>
	<body>
		<ul data-bind="foreach: myoptions" style="float: left;width: 49%; border: 1px solid black;">
			<li>
				<div class="item itemContainer" >
					<div class="itemId" data-bind="text: id"></div>
					<div class="itemTitle" data-bind="text: title"></div>
					<div class="itemContributor" data-bind="text: contributor"></div>
				</div>
				<div class="item pageNum" data-bind="html: pagenum"></div>
				<div class="item itemSelection" ><div class="previewItem"><input type="button" value="Preview" class="previewBtn"></div>
					<div class="addToMe"><input type="button" value="ADD >" id="addToMe" class="addToMeBtn" data-bind="click: $root.selectMe"></div>
				</div>
				<div class="imagePreview hide"><img src="/image.gif"></div>
			</li>
		</ul>
		<!-- selections -->
		<ul data-bind="foreach: myselections" style="float: left;width: 49%; border: 1px solid black;">
			<li class="">
				<div class="item pageNum" title="" data-bind="text: pagenum"></div>
				<div class="item itemContainer" data-bind="text: id">123</div>
				<div class="itemInfo">
					<span class="itemTitle" data-bind="text: title"></span>
					<span class="itemContributor" data-bind="text: contributor"></span>
				</div>
			</div>
		<div class="item handle" title="">
			<span class="ui-icon ui-icon-carat-2-n-s"></span>
		</div>
		<div class="item">
			<input type="button" value="remove" data-bind="click: $root.removeMe"/>
		</div>
		</li>
	</ul>
</body>
</html>

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