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Hi folks, We are working with Lehigh University on building out a more full-fledged SirsiDynix Symphony adapter to work with the XC NCIP toolkit. We will hopefully building our new Patron Account interface on top of the eXtensible Catalog NCIP toolkit. Obviously, to build our new interface on top of the NCIP toolkit, we need to generate NCIP XML requests and parse NCIP XML responses. These things are a bit gnarly to work with, and I'm not sure that PHP is exactly known for excellence in working with XML. Has anyone ever dabbled in this area before? Created an awesome PHP library we could just pick up and use? Have any particular pointers? We have Zend framework at our disposal in terms of PHP frameworks, and will likely be using that for this project. I don't know in particular if it has good XML parsing tools (my staff probably would), but even if it does, we still have to sort through the NCIP verbosity. Just thought I'd check. -emily