Cached templates fail on path problem

[cj-clx]

It appears that resolving path names to files is different for cached templates than for "live" templates. When I cache working pages' templates, which are composed of a variety of partials, some in subdirectories, I get a fatal error. Example error message below:

exception: File date-range-picker.xml not found in paths (., /Users/gits/web/staging/templates)

Note that the file being requested is actually located at this path:

/Users/gits/web/staging/templates/widgets

The requesting template code looks like this:

widget {
    content: template(attr(href));
    content-mode: html;

  <widget href="widget/date-range-picker.xml"
            id="registration"></widget>

[cj-clx]

I had closed this previously after finding a typo in a template that made it fail in this manner. But now I've proven via A/B testing that indeed sometimes cached templates do not find files that uncached templates are able to locate. There is a definite difference in behavior.

[cj-clx]

Here is a current example:

Transphporm exception: File modal/get-npi.xml not found in paths (., /Users/chris/gits/user-web2/staging/templates/modal)

Somehow the searched in paths are wrong, containing the subdirectory name (/modal) already.