Hi, I am stumpted and submit myself to your mercy. I suspect my problem may be with my browser but I cannot pass a file upload parameter to my cgi script with the full directory path. The file parameter is always local to my cgi-bin and not the full path the documentation implies it should be. The code works in netscape 6. Any ideas? Thanks AA

#!/usr/bin/perl -w -T
use strict;
use CGI;

my $entrypg=new CGI;

print $entrypg->header,
      $entrypg->start_html(
        -title => "Load your file",
        -BGCOLOR => 'white',
        -LINk => 'red'
      ),
      $entrypg->center($entrypg->h1("Upload annotation file")),
      $entrypg->start_multipart_form(
          -name=>'form',
          -method=>'POST',
          -action=>'http://xyz.co.uk/cgi-bin/Parse.cgi'
      ),
      $entrypg->table(
           {-border=>'1',
           -align=>'CENTER',
           -cellspacing=> '1',
           -cellpadding=>'1',
           },
          $entrypg->TR(
              {-colspan=>'2'},
          "Please choose your file:"
          ),
          $entrypg->TR(
              $entrypg->td($entrypg->filefield(
              -name=>'INPUT',
          -size=>'50'
          )
          )
          )
      ),
      $entrypg->submit,
      $entrypg->reset;
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and Parse.cgi=

#!/usr/bin/perl -w -T

use strict;
use CGI;
use Data::Dumper;
use XML::Parser;

my $xmlpg = new CGI;

my $file = $xmlpg->param("INPUT");

my ($ID,$from, $to);
my $p =new XML::Parser(Style=>'Tree');

my $doc = $p->parsefile("$file");

#print Dumper($doc);
my $level =0;


process_node(@$doc);

sub process_node {
     my ($type, $content) = @_; 

  if ($type eq 'id') { 
    $ID = trim($content->[2]); 
  } elsif ($type eq 'from') { 
    $from = trim($content->[2]); 
  } elsif ($type eq 'to') { 
    $to = trim($content->[2]); 
  } 

  if ($type) { 
    while (my @node = splice @$content, 1, 2) { 
      process_node(@node) 
    } 
  } 
} 

sub trim {
  local $_ = shift; 

  s/\n/ /g; s/^\s+//; 
  s/\s+$//; 
  return $_; 
}
print $xmlpg ->header,
      $xmlpg->start_html(
        -title => "XML File",
        -BGCOLOR => 'white',
        -LINk => 'red'
      ),
      $xmlpg->h1("Looking at $ID which starts at $from and finishes at
+ $to");
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