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> but I get errors when I put instances in an \edef.

The number of commands that work in an edef is vanishingly small;-)
Probably (instances of) templates could be (or perhaps already are!)
robust via the normal latex \protect mechanism, in which case they
should survive the latex equivalent of \edef which is
\protected@edef.

There is no way to make an instance of a template expandable in general
as the key setting in the template call are typically low level register
assignments in TeX, and they are not expandable.


David