[badmonkey0001]

I don't think you're being too harsh. I agree that newT really doesn't seem like a templating engine - it seems more like a HTML generator. It's a pretty complex hammer to drive a carpet tack. Programmatically constructing DOM from that low of a level is still more trouble than it's worth.

For me, I stick to small chunks I can loop on my own if need be and use a simple tokenizer I wrote (see bpmv.toke() at https://github.com/BrynM/bpmv/blob/master/bpmv.js ). Far simpler and I can have anyone whip up HTML boilerplate to use.