Brethren,

So I'm creating this kick-butt custom legal document management system with CGI::Application, HTML::Template, DBI and other modules.

My next major piece is to create subs that make the recursive, browsable tree of documents.

CGI::Explorer seemed like a good option, but the interface is too "techie," and doesn't work well in all browsers. (it's all but unusable in Netscape 4.77 for *nix). Other cpan searches turned up nada useful.

The node building an HTML based tree UI has some good info, but not much.

Assuming none of y'all have better ideas, my fallback is to create a recursive array of hash refs that gets plugged into HTML::Template <!-- TMPL_LOOP -->'s. Not that this is a bad option, but I was hoping that I wouldn't have to roll-my-own here.

My question(s): Is there something I missed on CPAN?
What pitfalls/feedback do others have about systems like this? How have you done it?

TIA

-Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from doubletalk.

In reply to Help on Creating HTML tree from hash by Hero Zzyzzx

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