YATS (Yet another templating system)

Okay, so a few weeks ago I was tasked with writing a templating system for use with PHP capable of separating content from display. We had looked at FastTemplate, but found it much too slow for production use. I agreed, on the condition that I could open source it when done. I spent a few days and hacked together a PHP module. So far, we haven't really used the system beyond my limited testing, and it no doubt contains many bugs. In particular, I added cacheing of templates across multiple requests (not a big win, unfortunately) which requires using real malloc and was somewhat painful to do with Zend's hashtable and macros, which use emalloc by default. So I expect problems there. But I digress.... The design is also derived from fasttemplate, but deviates more significantly, I think. In particular, parsing occurs only once, when the template is defined/loaded. Thus, there is no need for parse_dynamic(). The template syntax is also different. It allows nested dynamic sections. It does not allow conditionals, but has support for an "alt" parameter if the requested variable is not found. Other parameters may be defined as needed due to the {{var key1="val" key2="val"}} syntax. There is support for implicit looping, and (optional) automatic hiding of sections with undefined variables. Anyway, I was wondering what to do with this code. I could place it on sourceforge, or try to get it into the PHP distro, or sit on it. I was happy to discover this list and andrei's proposal sounds similar in many regards to what I had come up with. I have some documentation, which I am including with this mail (readme.HTML). I would like to hear your feedback on my design, and would also appreciate any thoughts on how best to distribute the code. regards, -dan