Thank you, lem/fokat ... I will definitely take a look.

I went for FastTemplate for certain parts of the site that I expect to get > 90% of site traffic, so they are optimised for speed. I expect those scripts to end up under mod_perl before long. But the part I need the translation aids for are static pages and I could happily use another system there.

so many CPAN modules, so litle time ...!