Action editfiles vs/ templatefiles?

[Ryan Erwin]

Hello-

I'm investigating using CFengine.  I've read the CFengine 2.0 tutorial, 
and searched the mailing list archives for an answer.

Using the editfiles action, it looks like you could embed special tags 
in your configuration file and instruct cfengine to replace these tags. 
 The incremental change approach sounds quite appropriate for many 
configuration files, but there are likely some where a template system 
with loops and conditions would be helpful.  Apache Web Farms may be a 
good example (especially if you use AxKit).

Does CFengine cleanly support using a templating tool like 
Text::Template or XSLT to process configuration template files, 
interpolate variable and class information from CFengine, and write the 
result file?  Is this a function that is already easily acombidated by 
CFengine that I have simply missed?  Or is there room for a 
"templatefiles" action in CFengine?

Thanks for your time-

-R