Actually, a reponse to one of my messages to that list lead to the following code:

package Onsite::Template::Context;
use strict;

use base qw/ Template::Context /;

sub include {
    my $self     = shift;
    my $template = $_[0];
    join "\n",
        "<!-- START: $template -->",
        $self->SUPER::include(@_),
        "<!-- END: $template -->";
}

1;

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Then, in the code that actually uses Template Toolkit:

use Template;
use Template::Config;
$Template::Config::CONTEXT = 'Onsite::Template::Context';

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That solved the problem nicely without my rude hack. Basically, the Config module has globals that control all of the modules that it uses. When a Template object is instantiated, &Template::Config::load is called which then will require all modules, allowing them to be overridden at run time. It's a neat solution.

The only thing about it that bugs me is that I kept reading and reading through the online Template Toolkit documentation and didn't see that anywhere. I'm sure it's there, I just can't find it.

Cheers,
Ovid

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