Sending values to a #parsed template...

Hi
    I am using the #parse directive and I need to pass some variables to the
template which is being parsed. The code I am using is:

#macro (FE_textline $element)
 #set($label = $element.getAttributeValue("label"))
 #set($description = $element.getAttributeValue("description"))
 #set($name = $element.getAttributeValue("name"))
 #set($value = $element.getAttributeValue("value"))
 #set($size = $element.getAttributeValue("size"))
 #set($maxlength = $element.getAttributeValue("maxlength"))
 #parse("$widgetsPath/FE_textline.html")
#end

    Still, the parsed template is not recognizing the variables. Am I doing
something wrong here? Thanx...

Rodrigo