Why are you filling bits and pieces into the template here and there and everywhere, instead of accumulating the relevant data in one place during a first, application logic only phase, then passing that to the templating engine in a second, display logic only phase?
Fair question. In the particular case I was wresting with, a page has separate logical components. The components are handled differently by both application logic and presentation logic. I could collect all of the template parameters together from the separate objects that deal with the presentation of each component, caching the parameters until I'm ready to set all of them in one big bang, but that seems like uncessesary work.
