You can use TT a lot like H::T just by ignoring the advanced features, like blocks, wrappers, methods...

<TMPL_IF foo>
  <TMPL_LOOP bar>
     <TMPL_VAR baz ESCAPE="HTML">
  </TMPL_LOOP>
</TMPL_IF>

[% IF foo %]
  [% FOREACH bar %]
     [% baz | html %]
  [% END %]
[% END %]
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