A suggestion

The implementation of the language for display layout and logic seems to me 
nice and simple in the specs. But it may help to put a blurb in the text 
explaining the template engine idea, making clear the decomposition of the 
tasks.

A scheme may help, something along the lines of (I am not good at ASCII art, 
so bear w/ me):


  Browser
     |
  Server
     |
    PHP -- Script (Processing logic)
             |
             |   Template   +-- template file(s)
             +--  engine  --+
                 (layout)   +-- configuration file(s)


(hopefully it will not be mangled too bad by e-mail programs not using 
proportional, instead of fixed, fonts)

With some sort of caption, to drive the point further:

"The PHP template engine uses external template and configuration files, to 
generate the appropriate layout representation of the data processed in the 
calling (host?) PHP script. In principle a script could pick different 
templates to display the same data in different ways: HTML for a web 
browser, XML for data encapsulation, etc."

Hope I got most of the stuff above right. Feel free to correct me if I did 
not understand some point in the PHP-TE description (hey! new acronym ;)



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