You missed my point.

Instead of having the template portion (control constructs etc) as part of the module, all the modules should use the same template. Then each module expects different data. So control flow and variable insertion remains the same, yet formating would be independent. So a PDF template might have header and footer tags, while xls has row and colum stuff, regardless they all still use the same loop, if, var code from the basic template. Code reuse 101 ;)