HTML-TEMPLATE is a Common Lisp library which can be used to fill templates with arbitrary (string) values at runtime. The result does not have to be HTML.

It is loosely modeled after the Perl module HTML::Template and partially compatible with a its syntax, though both libraries contain some extensions that the other does not support.

HTML-TEMPLATE translates templates into efficient closures which can be re-used as often as needed. It uses a cache mechanism so you can update templates while your program is running and have the changes take effect immediately.