I just use a text editor to create them, but if you need to do it programmatically, I think you can use XMLParser that is available on the RAA. There is an example called 'writer' that should get you started. Just create a DOM tree programmatically, then build a visitor to traverse the tree and dump the output. (Look at xmltree.rb and xmltreebuilder.rb for clues on how to build the tree... or post another message, and I will do my best at giving you an example.) Note: xmlparser sits on top of expat, so you will need to have that installed. Someone is also working on a pure Ruby xmlparser called NQXML. I assume you could do the same sort of thing with that. peace, aaron > From: Colin Steele [mailto:colin / webg2.com] > What tools are currently available in Ruby-land (either as extensions > or native code) for building XML documents? The RAA doesn't seem to > have any (unless I've missed something obvious). What are folks out > here using?