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A pseudo-RXML of how you might implement a table-rendering based on a collection of YAML files,
using technologies built into Roxen since 1995, imagining the vcs tag had gained git support,
and that a yaml tag had been introduced similar to other parsing tags.

Roxen was based on uLPC, the MUD language, which was a dynamic (jit'd -> p-code) C++/Objective-C
like language, which meant it was capable of jit/caching dynamic content generation...

It featured a server-side XML-based scripting language called RXML which integrated with
your HTML fluidly the way modern HTML 5 introduced things like <template> etc.

http://docs.roxen.com/roxen/4.5/index.xml
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<table id="packages">
<thead>
 <tr>
  <th> Package </th> <th> Id </th> <th> Description </th>
 </tr>
</thead>

<tbody>

<comment> Populate and maintain a working copy, and try a git pull once every 5 minutes. </comment>
<cache minutes="5" variable="_.tmpdir,_.url">  <!-- if tmpdir or url change, discard the cache. -->
 <vcs provider="git" path="&_.tmpdir;" uri="&_.url;" checkout="true" refresh="true" branch="master"/>
</cache>

<comment> Only rebuild the list if the commit hash changes. </comment>
<cache variable="vcs.revision">

 <comment> iterate over files in the working copy. </comment>
 <emit source="path" path="&vcs.wc;" scope="file" glob="*.yaml" recurse="true">
   <!-- [roxen predates yaml, so I'm basing this on other modules -->
   <yaml source="&file.path;" scope="yaml">
     <tr> <td> &file.filename; </td> <td> &yaml.Id; </td> <td> &yaml.Description; </td> </tr>
   </yaml>
 </emit>
</cache>

</tbody>
</table>

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