I can only recommend to you to write a compiler that takes your input language and outputs (for example) Perl:

<div id="comments">

  <table>
    (sql mode="mask")
      <query>
        SELECT * FROM comments LIMIT (qd)limit(/qd);
      </query>
      <mask>
        <tr>
          <td><d>comment</d></td>
          <td>[link action="showuser" 
                    userid="<d>userid</d>"
                  ]<d>username</d>[/link]</td>
          <td><d>timestamp</d></td>
        </tr>
      </mask>
    (/sql)
  </table>
</div>

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... could become 
my $output;
$output .= <<HTML;
<div id="comments">

  <table>
HTML
my $limit = get_qd('limit'); # whatever "qd" is supposed to be
my $results = fetch_sql( mode => "mask", query => <<SQL);
        SELECT * FROM comments LIMIT (qd)limit(/qd);
SQL

for my $row (@$results) {
    $output .= <<HTML;
      <mask>
        <tr>
          <td>
HTML

$output .= $row->{comment};
$output .= <<HTML;
</td>
          <td>
HTML
$output .= link( action => 'showuser', userid => $row->{userid}, text 
+=> <<HTML );
$row->{username}
HTML
$output .= <<HTML;
</td>
          <td>
HTML
$output .= $row->{timestamp};
$output .= <<HTML;
</td>
        </tr>
      </mask>
HTML
}; # (/sql)
$output .= <<HTML
  </table>
</div>
HTML

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This is basically the same technique that Template uses. The remaining infrastructure of including parts of pages from other code reminds me of HTML::Mason. I think you could learn lots from looking at the respective implementations. The Everything Engine (which this site runs on) is also fairly similar, except that it doesn't try to encode database queries as HTML - it leaves plain Perl for that. Subroutine calls can be encoded as special tags, but I'm not sure that this is an overall good idea.

Note that I'm no friend of large frameworks, because they usually work for nobody other than the author(s).

In reply to Re^3: Too difficult for me... by Corion
in thread Too difficult for me... by simonodell

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