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You could set a global variable to save repeating the command, and awk may be simpler:

global_vars:
  - name: pattern
    type: echo
    params:
      echo: awk '{print "<li>" $0 "</li>"}'

then each item is:

      - name: flist1
        type: shell
        params:
          cmd: echo "{{form.list1}}" | {{pattern}}

However, whatever I do I get alignment problems with the output.

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No, it separates the items in the list.

    <li>three</li>
<li>four</li>
<li>five</li>

I'm only testing one of the fields, with three items.

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great solution ! it works like a charm, and surely with quotes in the text :)

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What exactly do your sed lines do? I'm struggling with several unknown option to s', which are making it difficult for me to work out.
They take the list and wrap each item in <li></li>?

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yes, the idea is to make a < li> for each line of the multiline text.

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alignment is not my main concern for now.
Thanks for this code, you're right, pattern will be useful here !
but it will put an < li> tag around the whole multiline text, won't it ?

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You're welcome.

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Whilst pursuing a train of thought, I've done some investigation.
If the {{pattern}} isn't going to be used elsewhere, it can be defined in vars: within the main expansion, to save having a global_vars: entry. It only gets generated once, no matter how many times you use it.

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