[mikepurvis]

Groovy does something similar with MarkupTemplateEngine; I don't super care for it there either, at least as a mechanism for generating full webpages:

https://docs.groovy-lang.org/docs/groovy-2.5.3/html/document...

It can make a lot more sense as a way to prepare a smaller snippet of XML though, for example an xunit reponse.