[Vala] Template languages?

[Joseph Montanez <jmontanez gorilla3d com>]

Is there any in vala to help with string templating? I see there is
libXML but I didn't notice libxsl. I'll be happy with those two, but I
have seen a few c specific template libraries like CTemplate and
ClearSilver. Has anyone used anything of the sort?

Btw this would be awesome:
var bar = "hello world";
var foo = @"""
    <strong>$bar</strong>
""";

But that only results in a syntax error.

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