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"The script is run once when the decorator element is parsed or inserted into the document." At first glance I assumed 'inserted into the document' meant when the decorator replaces the existing element, which is definitely not the case I assume. The or case is when decorators that are not within a document but linked from a url?
http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/rev/7d90d083f255