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I recently had a prototyping task and used it to learn

 eXist
 Cocoon
 XQuery
 XForms (using firefox plugin)

and I was _very_ pleased -- with a few hiccups/gripes about
documentation (mostly for Cocoon in eXist and XForms), it went
smoothly and produced a very satisfactory result in a short period of
time, with _0_ lines of Javascript.

In particular, the combination of XQuery and XSLT which Cocoon makes
possible worked very well to support what you called "templating" in
the way I think you want (XQuery for aggregation, XSLT for UI
construction).

ht
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