Searched: Alternative to #include returning the processed content

Hello

I am currently facing a problem, when using FreeMarker in conjunction with
the Alfresco CMS. I am writing a FreeMarker Template, which has to be
pretty fast, as there will be a lot of requests in production. To archive
this, I created a few FreeMarker tags, which cache most of the Alfresco
functionality (like loading data from alfresco into freemarker, which is
quite a performance hog).

In order to complete my caching framework, I would like to implement some
sort of prerendering functionality, which would be significant for the
performance I guess.

The document I am rendering consists of about 20 other documents, which
are formed as a tree, like the following one (only an example)

- RootLevel
   - L1.0
     - L1.0.1
     - L1.0.2
   - L1.1
     - L1.1.1
   - L1.2
     - L1.2.1
       - L1.2.1.1
   - L1.3
     - L1.3.1
     - L1.3.2
     - L1.3.3
     - L1.4.4

You get it... This is possibly unlimited depth and I am currently using
the <#include> statement to display all the tree elements as a whole tree,
which works for displaying, but not for caching, as include processes the
template, but you cannot store the output of such a processing.

I played around with ?interpret as well, but couldn't get any useful
results either, which stored the rendered content, as you have to use the
<@interpretedVar /> notation in order the render the content (the
interpret? only creates a model if I recall correctly).

So any hints, of how to achieve a faster inclusion of my tree based
concept would be really helpful. The most simple solution would be to have
an include, which returns the rendered text instead of processing the
argument. Is this perhaps already somewhere built-in and I just did not
find it?

Thanks for any help and take care.


Regards, Alexander


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