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in reply to Abstracting away layout details when using large HTML::Template-based sites?

There is HTML::Template::Compiled which, while being compatible to HTML::Template, has a dynamic include feature, which does exactly what you expected above from HTML::Template at this point.

Referring to your code above:

my $filename = "./page.inc";   # or determine dynamically
$layout->param( page => $filename );

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layout.tmpl

<html>
  <head>
    <title><!-- tmpl_var name='title' --></title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- tmpl_include_var name='page' -->
  </body>
</html>

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and title will also be expanded in the page.inc part.

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