Thanks. Both good approaches but I'm planning on using this in mod_perl (and a plain old CGI here and there for development) to roll into a large web app. I'm after an automatic approach b/c this thing will have a few dozen tables in a couple DBs and I can't bear the thought of changing the interface as the DBs are altered/corrected and mature. I couldn't bear the work load for that matter.

Oh, on a related note, to everyone who pointed monks toward looking at the Template Toolkit: grazie mille! I had never heard of it and was about to go with Mason but I think I like TT2 better. Really amazing, fast, easy to dive into, powerful... wow.

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