Nested hash conversion to HTML

[Eric Olson]

Hello list...

At my company, we are looking for a module that would help out with
converting multiple layer nested hashes into HTML format. We want to
try and stay away from templates as much as possible so
Template::Toolkit is out ( for now ). So if anyone can point in the
right direction, we would be very grateful.

Thanks,

Eric

[Brian McCauley]

[email]ero@tfhs.net[/email] (Eric Olson) writes:

> At my company, we are looking for a module that would help out with
> converting multiple layer nested hashes into HTML format.

That it too vague a description of what you want.

> We want to try and stay away from templates as much as possible so
> Template::Toolkit is out ( for now ). So if anyone can point in the
> right direction, we would be very grateful.

How about Data::Dumper's Dumper() (to dump the hash as plain text) and
CGI's escapeHTML() (to escape any characters that are special in
HTML)?

I suspect that that is not what you wanted - but only because there
are millions of things you could want and so the chances of anyone
guessing which one you actually want is vanishingly small.

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[Eric Olson]

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Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com> wrote in message
That it too vague a description of what you want.

How about Data::Dumper's Dumper() (to dump the hash as plain text) and
CGI's escapeHTML() (to escape any characters that are special in
HTML)?

I suspect that that is not what you wanted - but only because there
are millions of things you could want and so the chances of anyone
guessing which one you actually want is vanishingly small.
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Ok.. I apologize for the vague description...So.. here goes...

We have this type of hash structure in our software (It's huge but it
works for now)

$hash->{'layer1'}->{$layer1Variable}->{'layer2'}->{$layer2Variable}..etc..etc..

The whole thing is around 7 layers deep with varying information
stored at each level. Is there a way to parse this information out
into HTML without using a template function or Data::Dumper?

I appreciate all help with this.

Thanks,
Eric

[Jürgen Exner]

Eric Olson wrote:

> We have this type of hash structure in our software (It's huge but it
> works for now)
>
>

$hash->{'layer1'}->{$layer1Variable}->{'layer2'}->{$layer2Variable}..etc..et
c..

>
> The whole thing is around 7 layers deep with varying information
> stored at each level. Is there a way to parse this information out
> into HTML without using a template function or Data::Dumper?

Pretty trivial. Just write a function/set of functions that traverses your
data tree and prints the appropriate HTML tags along with your data.

Now, how to traverse the tree (depth first or width first or maybe even a
combination) and where in this process to print which HTML code totally
depends on how _you_ want the data to be displayed.

jue

[Eric Olson]

"Jürgen Exner" <jurgenex@hotmail.com> wrote in message

> Pretty trivial. Just write a function/set of functions that traverses your
> data tree and prints the appropriate HTML tags along with your data.
>
> Now, how to traverse the tree (depth first or width first or maybe even a
> combination) and where in this process to print which HTML code totally
> depends on how _you_ want the data to be displayed.
>
> jue

Thanks for all the input. I hoped to find a module to do this. I'll give it a shot.

Thanks again,
Eric

[510046470588-0001@t-online.de]

[email]ero@tfhs.net[/email] (Eric Olson) writes:

> At my company, we are looking for a module that would help out with
> converting multiple layer nested hashes into HTML format.

not XML?

Klaus Schilling

[Brian McCauley]

[email]ero@tfhs.net[/email] (Eric Olson) writes:

> Brian McCauley <nobull@mail.com> wrote in message
>

> > How about Data::Dumper's Dumper() (to dump the hash as plain text) and
> > CGI's escapeHTML() (to escape any characters that are special in
> > HTML)?
> >
> > I suspect that that is not what you wanted - but only because there
> > are millions of things you could want and so the chances of anyone
> > guessing which one you actually want is vanishingly small.

>
> Ok.. I apologize for the vague description...So.. here goes...
>
> We have this type of hash structure in our software (It's huge but it
> works for now)
>
> $hash->{'layer1'}->{$layer1Variable}->{'layer2'}->{$layer2Variable}..etc..etc..
>
> The whole thing is around 7 layers deep with varying information
> stored at each level. Is there a way to parse this information out
> into HTML without using a template function or Data::Dumper?

That adds no information to what was in the original post. You have
mearly explained what you meant by the term "Nested hash" and I had
had no problem with that term in the first place.

> I appreciate all help with this.

You need to take a step back and figure out what you are trying to do.

If you can't manage an abstract description then perhaps example input
and output would give us some clue as to what you are thinking.

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