> I suspect that there are standard solutions to this but I don't know
> where to start looking for them. Any help would be great.
If you're just trying to do simple text substitution into a template, as
in
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you can use any straightforward text-substitution tool; sed or Perl would
work. There are lots of things that let you do (or write) 'pre-
processing'; the key issue is to find something that fits the scale you're
looking for. If you're trying to create millions of pages, some advanced
databasing solution is probably appropriate; if you're working with
something less than a thousand, a small suite of Perl scripts would
probably work just fine.
Sorry; that's not particularly helpful, but it's hard to give general
advice about this sort of stuff. (Good general advice is "Ignore people
who try to give general advice about this kind of stuff"!)
Shawn