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 ## What does it look like?
 
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+```html
   <ul id="products">
     {% for product in products %}
       <li>
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       </li>
     {% endfor %}
   </ul>
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+```
 
 ## Howto use Liquid
 
 Liquid supports a very simple API based around the Liquid::Template class.
 For standard use you can just pass it the content of a file and call render with a parameters hash.
 
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+```ruby
 @template = Liquid::Template.parse("hi {{name}}") # Parses and compiles the template
 @template.render( 'name' => 'tobi' )              # => "hi tobi"
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