Ethan - I am very pleased to hear that you are doing this. We've been using eXist for our on-line presentation for the past 8 years, or so. I think it is a great system. We have been using oXygen to manage most of the final creation of the EAD (oXygen can work directly with an eXist database) and during this past year I've started working with Orbeon as well. I think it has great possibilities. Planning on using the actual EAD document as the database 'record' has always made more sense to me than attempting to shoe-horn it into a variety of sql tables. I look forward to seeing your work. Dale -- L. Dale Patterson [log in to unmask] Archivist-Records Administrator 973-408-3195 United Methodist Church Archives fax: 973-408-3909 Madison, NJ 07940 http://www.gcah.org