Daniel Carrera wrote: > It would be great if I could save and load this entire class with > something as simple as: > > xml_save(addressbook, "file.xml") > addressbook = xml_open("file.xml") > One of the most important points in my TODO file is "allow write access". But this will really turn class XmlConfigFile into something bigger. There is a Perl module called XML::Simple that provides exactly the functionality you are looking for and I am currently trying to port it to Ruby. XmlConfigFile will simply use this new class then. Cheers, <maik/>