in reply to Wrapping output in HTML

I would consider HTML::FromText first. If it doesn't solve your problem fully, then try HTML::Template. The biggest problem i see with HTML::FromText is that is does not generate XHTML, but you might be able to get away with filtering the output through tidy.

jeffa

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