DOM tree based JavaScript template engines

Question

I am looking for a new Javascript template engine to replace old jQuery Template for my client side templating needs.

I'd prefer approach where the template engine deals with DOM trees instead of text strings and later dumps the content of the cooked string into innerHTML. This is better performance wise and I find DOM manipulation more proper way of constructing more of DOM tree.

What options I do have for Javascript template engine which would directly create DOM trees instead of being text based engines? I like Mustache.js's logicless approach, but it seems to operate on strings only. Native jQuery integration would also be a nice feature.

Answer 1

Transparency:

https://github.com/leonidas/transparency/

PURE:

http://beebole.com/pure/documentation/

Plates

https://github.com/flatiron/plates

Why all this:

http://blog.nodejitsu.com/micro-templates-are-dead

Answer 2

Distal

http://code.google.com/p/distal

Answer 3

soma-template is a new one.

Pure DOM manipulation, a lot of features, natural syntax, fully extensible with other libraries such as underscore.string, function calls with parameters, helpers, watchers. Capability to update only some nodes if needed, templates inside the DOM itself.

http://soundstep.github.com/soma-template/