in reply to Alternate template syntax for HTML::Template?
If you like asp/jsp-style tags you could consider HTML::Template::Compiled which is, as nice sideeffect, about 3 times faster than the original HTML::Template. If you want templates that are valid xml/xhtml you can take a look at Petal, which is an implementation of Zopes TAL for Perl.
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