that's an interesting use case. i would definitely file a bug as an
enhancement here:
http://code.google.com/p/ciui-dev/issues.
you can also take a stab at it, if you like. i'll be happy to commit
your patch in the source tree. we'd basically have to drop a
requirement for the body element to be present. i think we should do
that anyway. then we'd probably have to annotate your links somehow so
we know when to load into an element and when to load a full page. it
shouldn't be too complicated.