Provide API to set and read Special Elements

[csev]

I am looking into building an automatic grader based on this and I need a feature. I played around trying to hack your markup through my own JavaScript and was unsuccessful :(

All I want to do is be able to find an input box and output boxes - I want to be able to set input switches from JS and wait a bit and read the output boxes.

I think this would be really simple - I almost hacked it :) I think the key is to allow the user give a name to the special elements and give me the simplest of APIs to set them and read them.

I am happy to pay for this feature andor add a permanent sponsorship to the project if that would help.

Thanks in advance.