does jquery extend do a pass by reference?
<p>I am cloning a element(deep) and extending to get the object attributes...but the extend make it to point to the original object, there is no more a clone. If I remove the extend then it is working.. how do I clone/extend and not have reference to the previous object..
Here is the </p>

<p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/cooolbasha/gyZmt/3/" rel="nofollow">jsfiddle</a></p>

<p>Thanks</p>
