1 ages under templates/ are invalid (in fact, not only invalid, but also not well-formed) xhtml pages.
3 This problem is especially serious when you change extension from .html to .xhtml in ikiwiki.setup and use Firefox. Since Firefox will display a error message only for not well-formed application/xhtml+xml pages.
5 It seems that HTML::Template also support <!--Variable--> syntax instead of <Variable>. Chaning to this syntax will solve this problem, I guess.
8 Even if changed to <!-- TMPL_VAR --> style, the problem may still exist if the template contains if else block.
10 Maybe just encode all < and > when compling pages within the templates folder will solve this problem.