What I want to do is really simple output processing (like substituting   for spaces in menus). I think that's something I can safely do in a template -- if not, I'll be happy to hear why before I go too far in a wrong direction :)

Oh, then be sure to read Template::Filters to see how to do that properly. In fact, there might already be a filter in the standard collection to do that!

-- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker