I tend not to put any HTML into the plugin code, but instead send it to the plugin from the document level.

  <ul>
  <some_list_creating_plugin>
    <li><some_marker></li>
  </some_list_creating_plugin>
  </ul>


some_list_creating_plugin => sub {

  my @list = ['foo','bar','baz'];
  my $mask = $_[0];
  my $result;
  
  foreach my $item (@list)
     {
      my $maskCopy = $mask;
      $maskCopy =~ s@<some_marker>@$item@gs;
      push (@results, $maskCopy);
     }

 return join (@results);
}


output
------

  <ul>
    <li>foo</li>
    <li>bar</li>
    <li>baz</li>
  </ul>
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$maskCopy =~ s@<some_marker>@$item@gs;

But what if $item was HTML from a database instead of being hardcoded aXML...

Well you wouldn't want to be putting the <ul> tags in then.

Ok so...

If our database looked like this

pageid int primary key auto_increment,
name varchar(255),
html text

Then

(db_get)pages.name="(sqd)name(/sqd)".html(/db_get)
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Then localhost:5000?action=test&name=homepage will be displaying the contents of the html column of the pages db.