in reply to Callbacks and templates.

The Template Toolkit can use callbacks. I'm not sure exactly what you want to do, but this demonstrates the general idea. 
#!/usr/bin/perl                                                       
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use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;                                                         
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my $tt = Template->new;                                               
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my $data = { word => 'callbacks',
             emphasise => \&emphasise };
                                                                      
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$tt->process(\*DATA, $data) || die $tt->error(), "\n";
                                                                      
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sub emphasise {
  return "** @_ **";
}
                                                                      
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__DATA__
This is a template.
It includes [% emphasise(word) %]

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Re(2): Callbacks and templates.
by bart (Canon) on Apr 13, 2004 at 09:13 UTC
    I didn't know you could do it this way. Neat.

    Anyway, TIMTOWTDI, even for Template-Toolkit. Here's the same demo modified to use a filter, which is like a "program" (thus, a sub) you pipe the data through. 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use warnings;
use Template;

my $tt = Template->new(FILTERS => { emphasise => \&emphasise });

my $data = { word => 'callbacks' };

$tt->process(\*DATA, $data) || die $tt->error(), "\n";

sub emphasise {
  return "** @_ **";
}

__DATA__
This is a template.
It includes [% word | emphasise %]

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Re: Re: Callbacks and templates.
by LukeyBoy (Friar) on Apr 13, 2004 at 07:17 UTC
    That looks great, thanks!
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