Short answer: Write a Java applet if you want something to work like that. You can send XML from your Perl script to the Java program, which could presumably display it. This isn't easy though. It sounds like the Golden Hammer of solutions, in other words, a waste of time.

Long answer: Make a bigger map and label it so that it makes sense as to what people are looking at. Also, you can easily generate JavaScript code from within Perl. With that in mind, you can export a JavaScript array which would have coordinates and town names. You can't "call" Perl from within JavaScript, because there is no Perl. There is only a Web server somewhere, with Perl running on it.

As long as the page you're talking about can be converted into a Perl-generated one, then you have a lot of ways you can go about solving this problem.

In reply to Re: Calling a perl function from within a javascript function by tadman
in thread Calling a perl function from within a javascript function by Baz

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