title: CakePHP: How to use a view element inside of a controller
body: <p>I'm trying to figure out how to use one of my view elements inside of a controller...</p>
  
  <p><strong>I know, I know:</strong> "Don't do that!" (99% of the time this is the correct answer)</p>
  
  <p>But I think I actually have a good reason. The action is handling an AJAX request which returns markup. The returned markup is a list which I display everywhere else using an element. So in an effort to keep my code DRY, I think it's appropriate to do this here. </p>
  
  <p>Is this possible?</p>