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in reply to HTML::Template's watchful eye

I'm guessing the easiest work-around would be to add to your template include path so that even templates that don't actually get used can be found, like:

my $template = HTML::Template->new( filename => 'file.tmpl', path => [ '/path/to/templates', '/alternate/path' ] );

I've become increasingly unhappy with HTML::Template lately, largely due to the inability to do a construct like

<tmpl_include name="<tmpl_var name='foo'>">
which is another form of what you seem to be looking for. As far as I know, the only way to accomplish something like this is to use the "filter" option, like:
my $tmpl = HTML::Template->new( 'filename' => "foo.tmpl", 'filter' => sub { my $text_ref = shift; $$text_ref =~ s/special include tag/the actual include file ta +g/; } );


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