tpl: Fix the remaining template funcs namespace issues

See #3042

tpl/encoding/encoding.go

@@ -29,9 +29,6 @@ func New() *Namespace {
 // Namespace provides template functions for the "encoding" namespace.
 type Namespace struct{}
 
-// Namespace returns a pointer to the current namespace instance.
-func (ns *Namespace) Namespace() *Namespace { return ns }
-
 // Base64Decode returns the base64 decoding of the given content.
 func (ns *Namespace) Base64Decode(content interface{}) (string, error) {
 	conv, err := cast.ToStringE(content)

tpl/encoding/encoding_test.go

@@ -25,14 +25,6 @@ import (
 
 type tstNoStringer struct{}
 
-func TestNamespace(t *testing.T) {
-	t.Parallel()
-
-	ns := New()
-
-	assert.Equal(t, ns, ns.Namespace(), "object pointers should match")
-}
-
 func TestBase64Decode(t *testing.T) {
 	t.Parallel()