When I've used Class::DBI with HTML::Template, I found it pretty easy to copy data from a list of objects into a hash structure that H::T could handle. I definitely was writing code to handle that translation, but that's the price you pay for the strong abstraction layer that H::T provides you. If you want a templating system that doesn't require you to arrange your data like this, Template Toolkit is happy to work on Class::DBI objects directly.

Well perrin I think you have hit it on the head. I thought again about my remarks on DB complexity. Perhaps Class::DBI is no more and no less capable of handling complex relationships than anything else. What I was complaining about was the translation, and I think a couple of suggestions have been made that I will ponder overnight.

As always, thanks for the insightful contribution.

John jdtoronto

PS: Template Toolkit is on my list of things to learn when this job is complete!