I'm curious - you mention this is for a status-monitoring application-ette. Why don't you take a little bit of time and convert it to HTML::Template or TT? You already have it in the right data format - AoH. TT can take HoH, even, and sort them.

Here's the big thing for me - CGI has nifty time-savers for generating HTML. Yet, I have NEVER been left with just generating HTML. I have always had some suit come up to me and say "Could you just export this to Excel for me?" or "Can I get a nice printout of that?" (implying PDF). Or, even worse, "Can you graph that for me?". Which is why I wrote PDF::Template, Excel::Template, and Graph::Template - to go with HTML::Template. Same data structure, but it takes me 5 minutes to convert any webpage into a PDF, XLS, or PNG. I'm not knocking CGI as a quick-hit, but I think to use its HTML generation in anything but a one-off is just begging to be hit by a rewrite-by-four.

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In reply to Re: CGI.pm HTML-Generation Methods Considered Useful by dragonchild
in thread CGI.pm HTML-Generation Methods Considered Useful by friedo

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