Hello, fellow monks. I seek for your collective wisdom :)

The task at hands is simple. I have a page which includes several nearly identical html chunks (read as follows: a form with several groups of widgets for date input). I'd like (naturally) to <TMPL_INCLUDE> them, but I don't seem to be able by design. Those widgets must have different names.

The way I'll probably do it now: 

my $tmpl = new HTML::Template
    filename => 'form.tmpl.html';
my $date = new HTML::Template
    filename => 'dateinput.tmpl.html';

$date->param(ctrl_name => 'start');
$tmpl->param(start_date => $date->output);
$date->param(ctrl_name => 'end');
$tmpl->param(end_date => $date->output);

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And I'd like to just: 
<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME='dateinput.tmpl.html' ctrl_name=start>
...
<TMPL_INCLUDE NAME='dateinput.tmpl.html' ctrl_name=end>

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Both ways are awkward and the second is also impossible with current HTML::Template.

Any suggestions?

In reply to HTML::Template generic includes by kappa

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