It's totally illogical trying to compare aXML and TT2!

Why, because its trivial to compare them? Re^4: RFC : Abstraction Markup, Re^7: H.O.P && aXML, Re^7: H.O.P && aXML

It doesn't even make sense to try and provide an example of the same thing as above done in aXML

Of course it doesn't, esp since none asked

since all you would need to do to replicate that output is write a little perl script like

Maybe you missed it, but that was an example, of compiled template which uses recursion -- the thing you said you couldn't write yourself

You say you were looking for ways to speed up aXML, ways to write a compiler -- read ch8 and the examples, and you too, can write your own