mustache with partials and associative arrays

composer.json

{
    "name": "aoloe/mustache-test",
    "require" : {
        "mustache/mustache" : "~2.5"
    }
}

index.php

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', '1');

require('vendor/autoload.php');

$associative = true;

if ($associative) {
    $list = ['list' => [
        1 => [
            'name' => 'hanna',
            'sub' => [
                2 => [
                    'name' => 'pico',
                    'sub' => []
                ],
            ]
        ],
        3 => [
            'name' => 'her',
            'sub' => []
        ],
        4 => [
            'name' => 'sisters',
            'sub' => []
        ],
    ] 
    ];
} else {
    $list = ['list' => [
        [
            'name' => 'hanna',
            'sub' => [
                [
                    'name' => 'pico',
                    'sub' => []
                ],
            ]
        ],
        [
            'name' => 'her',
            'sub' => []
        ],
        [
            'name' => 'sisters',
            'sub' => []
        ],
    ] 
    ];
}

$mustache = new \Mustache_Engine(
    array (
        'loader' => new \Mustache_Loader_FilesystemLoader('./'),
    )
);

$template = $mustache->loadTemplate('list-ul');

echo $template->render(
    array (
        'list' => new \ArrayIterator($list['list']),
        'no-entries' => 'nothing to see',
    )
);

list-li.mustache

<li>{{name}}
{{#sub}}
    <ul>
    {{>list-li}}
    </ul>
{{/sub}}
</li>

list-ul.mustache

<ul>
{{#list}}
    {{>list-li}}
{{/list}}
{{^list}}
{{no-entries}}
{{/list}}
</ul>