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    [% comment and iterate over news_variable %]
    [% for i in news_variable %]
        <h2>Breaking news: [% readvar i.headline %]</h2>
        <p>Status: [% readvar i.status %]</p>
    [% endfor %]

Data sources are handled via plugins. Currently XML and DBI are supported.

The XML source is explained by the example above. The only additional option
is 'limit', which can be set to a positive number and which limits the number
of iterations. This plugin is quite limited in that the file structure always
has be the
same: one root tag that contains a list of secondary tags, each of which many
only contain distinct tags. Nested tags might work, but aren't officially
supported.

DBI is perls generic database interface. You can use it to access a database.
This has some limitations, for example you can't reuse database connections,
so every C<bind> statement actually opens a database connection on its own.

For the brave, here is an example of how to use it: