Jacque- Saturday, April 13, 2013, 11:01:33 AM, you wrote: > Thanks. I agree, XML is to be avoided whenever possible. I'll talk to > the client about the databse. Alternate suggestion if this isn't an off-the-shelf Rails app: can the Rails developer supply you with a RESTful interface for what you need to do? -- -Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net