2007/12/10, cs ss <cs.subscribe / gmail.com>: > Great - thanks for the responses! > > I had mostly discounted the rails option but it seems to be the best way > to control the actual output, as there is a bit of processing that needs > to be done on the data. > > I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing the easy way to do this > rather than wrap a framework like rails around a simple db export ruby > script! Well, if it is just a single and static template you could even use string interpolation to do the job. Certainly faster than REXML but YMMV. Kind regards robert -- use.inject do |as, often| as.you_can - without end