XML is also game for blocks of text with clumsy <xsl:value-of select='$thing' /> scattered through it for an ad hoc string substitution in those unquoted text b

XML is also game for blocks of text with clumsy <xsl:value-of select='$thing' /> scattered through it for an ad hoc string substitution in those unquoted text blocks. Lua has a nice large blocks of literal text notation too.