What I wished Template Code Looked Like
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:tpl="http://www.smarty.net/v/3"><tpl:strip>
<head>
<title><tpl:var name="siteName" default="My Website" /> | <tpl:var name="pageTitle" default="Page Title" /></title>
<tpl:createTag name="link">
<tpl:property name="rel">stylesheet</tpl:property>
<tpl:property name="type">text/css</tpl:property>
<tpl:property name="href"><tpl:var name="cssDir" />/default.css</tpl:property>
</tpl:createTag>
<tpl:createTag name="link" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<tpl:property name="href"><tpl:var name="cssDir" />/christmass.css</tpl:property>
</tpl:createTag>
</head>
<body></body>
</tpl:strip></html>