Hi Steve,

The effort is now part of the jQuery UI project which is looking at how to integrate it into the project's architecture: <a href="http://blog.jquery.com/2011/04/16/official-plugins-a-change-in-the-roadmap/" rel="nofollow">Roadmap</a>

I would say to check out <a href="https://github.com/BorisMoore/jsrender" rel="nofollow">JsRender</a> which is being curated by the original developer of jq-tmpl and is an optimized version of it as well as <a href="https://github.com/BorisMoore/jsviews" rel="nofollow">JsViews</a> which incorporates data linking into the templates.