I have recently decided I really like the Everything Engine, really really like...

But then I thought, what if I have to be able to display my Everything-based website on a mobile phone...

Here I got stuck.

I decided to look into Everything and see how much I could separate the presentation layer. The docs lead me to test with the Chatterbox like this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use Everything;
initEverything('DATABASE') or die "Couldn't connect to database!\n";
my $node = getNodeById(287) or die "Can't get chatterbox node!\n";
my $nl = updateNodelet($node); # insertNodelet didn't work either

print $nl;

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Well that didn't work because the chatterbox calls to $USER and makes some other function calls which aren't in the namespace.

So reading the documentation I see that I can create $USER from EVERYTHING::HTML and also access the updateNodelet and insertNodelet functions but...

Ok this starts to get convoluted, so here's the question:

I see that PerlMonks now has the option to view a node in XML mode, I would be so ridiculously happy to write some code like this: 
# filename = displayInMobilePhone.cgi
use Everything;
$chatter = getNode('chatterbox');
$loggedUsers = getNode('other users');
$chatter->makeXML;
$loggedUsers->makeXML;
...other stuff...
use Template;
use XML::Simple;  # or your personal choice
$display = new Template(...);
$xml = new XML::Simple(...);
$chatterDATA = $xml->XMLin($chatter->{XML});
$usersDATA = $xml->XMLin($loggedUsers->{XML});

$display->parse('mobile.template', {chatter => $chatterDATA, users => 
+$usersDATA});
....ta-da done!!!!!

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Can I do this?

Please....?

Tosh

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