Preparation code

<div>
  <ul>
    <li><a href="#">item 1</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 2</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">item 3</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>
<script>
  function toArray(collection) {
   var result = [],
       i = -1;
   while (result[++i] = collection[i]) {};
   result.length--;
   return result;
  }
  
  var liveList = document.getElementsByTagName('a');
  var statList = document.querySelectorAll('a');
  var liveArr = toArray(liveList);
  var statArr = toArray(statList);
</script>

Preparation code output

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for (var i = 0, length = liveList.length; i < length; i++) {
 liveList[i].nodeName;
}

for (var i = 0, length = statList.length; i < length; i++) {
 statList[i].nodeName;
}

for (var i = 0, length = liveArr.length; i < length; i++) {
 liveArr[i].nodeName;
}

for (var i = 0, length = statArr.length; i < length; i++) {
 statArr[i].nodeName;
}

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Revisions

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• Revision 1: published by John-David Dalton on 29th September 2010
• Revision 3: published on 29th September 2010
• Revision 4: published on 30th May 2012
• Revision 5: published by Yaffle on 7th June 2012
• Revision 6: published by Mumtaz on 25th October 2012
• Revision 7: published by pll on 21st November 2012
• Revision 9: published on 15th April 2013

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