Hello Mike,
Not yet. We have this on our roadmap for Q1.2012 -- until it is released, you can the node text to the HTML that you need and set encoded to false:
dataSource: [ { text: "<input type='hidden' value='123' />Foo", encoded: false } ]
Best wishes,
Alex Gyoshev
the Telerik team
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