-> I don't wish HTML::Template to be *replaced* by Template::Toolkit - as others have said above, it's overkill for my needs. However, I also agree that HTML::Template has its own problems too. The idea of making the template system modular, with a choice of which backend to use - I really like that idea. It would enable me to use some other template system I like better, such as Text::Template or Text::NeatTemplate. But I think it would be a lot of work to implement, though perhaps no more work than making the revision-control backend modular, I guess. One would need to write an IkiWiki template interface that didn't care what the backend was, and yet is somehow still flexible enough to take advantage of special features of different backends. There are an *awful lot* of things that use templates - not just the `pagetemplate` and `template` plugins, but a number of others which have specialized templates of their own. -- [[KathrynAndersen]]
+> I don't wish HTML::Template to be *replaced* by Template::Toolkit - as
+> others have said above, it's overkill for my needs. However, I also
+> agree that HTML::Template has its own problems too. The idea of making
+> the template system modular, with a choice of which backend to use - I
+> really like that idea. It would enable me to use some other template
+> system I like better, such as Text::Template or Text::NeatTemplate. But I
+> think it would be a lot of work to implement, though perhaps no more work
+> than making the revision-control backend modular, I guess. One would
+> need to write an IkiWiki template interface that didn't care what the
+> backend was, and yet is somehow still flexible enough to take advantage
+> of special features of different backends. There are an *awful lot* of
+> things that use templates - not just the `pagetemplate` and `template`
+> plugins, but a number of others which have specialized templates of their
+> own. -- [[KathrynAndersen]]a
+
+>> A modular template system in ikiwiki is unlikely, as template objects
+>> are part of the API, notably the `pagetemplate` hook. Unless the other
+>> system has a compatible template object. --[[Joey]]
+
+>>> I hacked an adapter that exposes the HTML::Template API but uses
+>>> Template::Toolkit for the template rendering. Very rough, but it
+>>> works: my Wikis compile mostly ok. The code includes a `.tmpl`
+>>> converter script. Get it from: <http://github.com/riccardomurri/ikiwiki>
+>>> --[[RiccardoMurri]]
+
+---
+
+>>> I found this thing yesterday:
+>>>
+>>> http://search.cpan.org/~rhandom/Template-Alloy-1.016/lib/Template/Alloy.pod
+>>> I think (hope) this can solve all the problems related to this feature request.
+>>>
+>>> From the url above:
+>>> "With Template::Alloy you can use your favorite template interface and syntax
+>>> and get features from each of the other major template systems."
+>>> --[[Cstamas]]