Fellow monks--

I'm looking for a little advice on a project I'm going to start undertaking.

My organization needs an intranet, and since I'm dying to use perl for just about anything I can, I would like to store the info in XML files and use XML:Parser (is that right?) to output the stuff in HTML (or XHTML). What I really need is a list of links where I can go to for info.

First thing: I really don't know too much about XML, and am only a newbie at Perl. Any good tutorials on either separately, and together, would be helpful.

Second thing: I noticed that this particular site runs like one big CGI script, and the links are really just parameters passed to it. That's pretty cool, and if there's an advantage, I'd like to do that. So what would be the advantage, and where could I learn about that?

Third: any pitfalls I should watch out for? I know to use -T, but that's about it.

Ok, I think that's it for now. Just to make it clear, you guys don't have to give me any code or anything. I'd actually prefer someone to point me in the right direction instead, but you guys usually do that anyway. Thanks again!

In reply to intranet using xml and perl by derek3000

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