README.md

@@ -904,6 +904,8 @@ Where the project is heading; the sections before Audience document what ships t
       spelling to write instead.
    8. When a clearer name turns up, it replaces the old one, even if that needs a new
       major version.
+   9. Everything fejkdata renders is written as a template: on the command line, in a
+      struct tag and in the library.
 6. **Mistakes are caught when the data loads, and the error says plainly what is
    wrong.**
    1. A template that could render a value its own rules forbid, such as `NaN` or `Inf`,

todo.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 `Bar = 9`
 
-`Next ID = 129`
+`Next ID = 130`
 
 | Goal | W |
 |---|---|
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 | 5.6 | 0.80 |
 | 5.7 | 0.80 |
 | 5.8 | 0.80 |
+| 5.9 | 0.80 |
 | 6 | 0.75 |
 | 6.1 | 0.75 |
 | 6.2 | 0.75 |
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@
 | 61 | 0.1.0 |  | **Add a locale, with its `geo/` tree, for each of the ten most-spoken languages and each Nordic country.** | 4 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 2.1 | 30.8 |
 | 16 | 0.1.0 |  | **Add the remaining locale categories: company, phone, finance, vehicle, words.** | 3 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 2.2, 15 | 28.1 |
 | 15 | 0.1.0 |  | **Add the remaining `misc` tables and templates, one row of its detail's table per chunk.** | 3 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 2, 15, 14 | 25.9 |
+| 129 | 0.1.0 |  | **Take a template wherever fejkdata renders, so `fejkdata '{/sv_SE.person}'`, `fake:"{/sv_SE.person.first}"` and `Fake("{/sv_SE.person}")` render, and text with no `{…}` prints as written.** | 5 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 5.9, 5.7, 7 | 25.0 |
 | 57 | 0.1.0 |  | **Rewrite `CHANGELOG.md`'s `[Unreleased]` as what v0.1.0 holds.** | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1.1 | 22.5 |
 | 34 | 0.1.0 |  | **Add `{isin()}`, `{cusip()}`, `{aba()}` and `{vin()}`.** | 2 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 20.9 |
 | 96 | 0.1.0 |  | **Refuse two reads into one sibling, category or struct category that no name joins, `{place.postal-code} {place.locality}`, showing the spelling for one pick and the one for two.** | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 5.6, 4 | 20.9 |
@@ -235,6 +237,20 @@ Shape: T = table, t = template, c = choice.
 | `lorem`, `hacker`, `hipster`, `catchphrase`, `buzzword`, `quote` | T/c | lorem ipsum, LLM-written | — |
 | `direction`, `continent`, `ulid` | c/t | — | — |
 
+### 129. Take a template wherever fejkdata renders, so `fejkdata '{/sv_SE.person}'`, `fake:"{/sv_SE.person.first}"` and `Fake("{/sv_SE.person}")` render, and text with no `{…}` prints as written.
+
+Goal 5.9, which the maintainer set on 2026-10-06: a path is a second spelling of the template reading it.
+
+- A template of one reference alone is what it references, as a record column reading one reference already is. `--format json '{/users}'` prints the columns of `users`, `--format csv '{/misc.territory[SE]}'` that row, and `--table` defaults to the reference's last segment.
+- `Fake`, `FakeRecord`, `NewTemplate` and `NewRecordTemplate` take a template. `FakeTemplate` folds into `Fake`, and `IsTemplate` goes.
+- `List` and `--list` give each entry as the template that renders it, `{/sv_SE.person}`.
+- Text with no `{…}` prints as written (goal 5.1), so `fejkdata sv_SE.person` prints `sv_SE.person`.
+- An unknown reference exits 2, per the decision "An inline template that does not compile is misuse (exit 2), including a reference that resolves to nothing".
+- The lone-reference refusal, the leading-`/` refusal and the path branch of `grammar.IsTemplate` go.
+- This revises the decisions "An argument is a template by its shape, not by a flag", "`FakeTemplate` and `NewTemplate` both stay" and "`--list` stays a plain list of paths". The README's examples, the CLI's usage text and `CHANGELOG.md`'s Breaking section move to the template spelling.
+
+Split it into items for the CLI, struct tags and the library before starting.
+
 ### 57. Rewrite `CHANGELOG.md`'s `[Unreleased]` as what v0.1.0 holds.
 
 Nothing has shipped, so "no longer paths", "where it used to fail" and "where it used to be an empty string" describe versions no reader can have installed.