There are differentĀ discussions going on since quote some time
on the cocoon-dev mailinglist about a āAttribute Based Templatesā or
simpler templating engines in general.
Betrand Delacretaz now set up a wiki page
about one proposal by Conal Tuohy. The thread to this can be found here.
It's a similar approach like we took with our TAL implementation in Popoon, mainly just another syntax.
If I find some time, I'll take a closer look into that proposal and
see, if we can join efforts and come up with something really good and
useful for all of us.