Making colors transparent on another path..

Okay, I'm pretty sure there's a name for this, but I don't know it, so I can't look up a tutorial on how to do this.
If I have, for example, this image:
http://wiki.scribus.net/images/8/8b/Circled2.png
and the bigger blue circle is a SOLID circle, and the white circle is a SOLID white circle, and the white circle is on top of the blue circle, how do I make it so that all of the colors that are "in the way" of the white circle's path get erased? It's kind of hard for me to explain, but after they are "out of the way", the blue circle has a no color section where the white circle was.
It's kind of like taking the path of the white circle, and putting it onto the blue circle, and then erasing everything in the path on the blue circle.
If someone can give any input on this, it'd be great! Thanks in advance.

Hello
Do you mean Compound path its in illustrator under object try it out?

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i am designing a software that visualises property prices of houses. so i have images of houses all over the map. what i want to do is when i click a certain button, it shades the most expensive houses with dark red and least expenses houses with lighter red.
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regards

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Hi there
First, let's get a bit clearer on our terminology, shall we?
What you are seeing is not a "Build Tag". Sure, the Span indicates a tag and it's there when you build, but a "Build Tag" is a special tag inside RoboHelp that you apply to specific content that you wish to omit from the build using a counterpart known as a "Build Expression".
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What you are reporting is an inline styling element.
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jubgb
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import java.awt.Graphics;
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