Thats totally what I need to do problem is I am so new to perl I am not sure where to do it. I posted the subroutine I am working on to my scratchpad, basically I want to have it break out of that subroutine, the previous coder was much better at perl than I am and has left the company, I understand the qq^ is to output the xml and I think the ^ (caret, means match from first character preceding qq^to itself so its like the endpoint?) anyways I am not sure how to get it to not display. I guess I could setup a switch with completely different modules, based on the other product thats a tremendous amount of work though when all I really want to do is display on the left hand menu a (trying to get to this site click here) A link to a userguide, and a link to some demos, and possibly a help tab to display the help ( I do want it to do the nifty toc thing). Alakaboo, you will totally be my hero if you can help me figure this out, I have been working on it for a week and a half and feel like I am no closer to a resolution than when I began.