Markdown Discuss - May 2009 - Including external files

I quite often find myself making documents that pull together other
fragmentary documents. Does anyone have suggestions for an include or
embed syntax? I.e. a way of saying "pull in the contents of document X
here". Has this been implemented before?
Such a syntax might be:
(embed: snippet.txt)
or
[include](snippet.txt)

Your thoughts?

Best regards,
 - Daniel

Template toolkit.

Here's a sample:

[% PROCESS header.inc
        Title = "Sherwood's Forests -- Almanac"
        Desc = "Sherwood's Forests life at the tree farm."
%]
<DIV id="content">

[% FILTER multimarkdown %]

# Sherwood's Almanac
#### Week starting 22 March 2009
***


[% PROCESS Copyright.inc %][% END %]

</div>
[% INCLUDE footer.inc %]



That's the blank template I use for my blog.

PROCESS allows you to pass data to the include file.
INCLUDE just includes it verbatim with no processing by the template system.
Therer is also INSERT which works like process, but acts like it's
call-by-value instead
of call-by-reference for the name space.

In my case, header.inc  builds the menu, Copyright.inc  has the copyright
info and also a link back to the top of the page.
(My Bad: my pages tend to be 3-4 screens long.)

Footer has the document end and a couple of google Adsense boxes.


-- 
Sherwood Botsford
Sherwood's Forests
Warburg, Alberta T0C 2T0
http://www.sherwoods-forests.com
780-848-2548
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