Hi Everyone This is my first post and I am a complete Perl Newbie. Here is the background: (The next paragraph may be skipped.)
I am involved in a physics education project which includes maintaining a rather large webpage. I am proficient in html, but I discovered that no matter what I do, different browsers support css in different ways and basically I am wasting tons of time. To cut a long story short. Someone suggested that I dynamically generate the webpage from an xml database using a scripting language such as Perl. I know how I like to learn new languages. Take on a very large difficult project and chip away at it. Any fool can write a "hello world" program. That is not how I learn. So, I figured I will turn my Mac into a webserver, install the XML-XPath and XML Parser Perl modules and settle down to writing a perl script which dynamically generates a webpage, learning Perl on the fly. Unfortunately I got stuck on the installation stage. I basically need help installing perl modules in Mac OS X. I started by installing Perl 5.8 using the instructions given at the website below. http://developer.apple.com/internet/macosx/perl.html Stupidly (maybe) I installed 5.8 over the 5.6 version that came with developer tools. Basically I followed the Apple directory structure, not the default Perl structure that the author suggested. (No good reason really). Anyway, everything seemed to work fine after completing the installation. Then I went to CPAN and downloaded the XML-XPath 1.12 module and tried to install it. I followed the std instructions for unix systems, but it did not install properly and so now I am stuck. I am completely clueless as to what to do. This is probably a question for a FAQ, but there does not seem to be one that comes with this mailing list.... :) - can someone please help - by explaining how to install Perl modules in Mac OS 10.2 (You will need to make instructions explicit since I am a bit of a computer dummy) Thanks in advance David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
