reclusive monkey wrote:

> Firstly is this possible?!
> 
> I've been playing around with XML for various things, and it would be
> very helpful if I could manage to write to an XML file with no
> server-side work. 

I'm not clear what you mean by "write to an XML file" in this context.

Do you mean "make the user's browser write an XML file to their hard disk"?

This would be a rather serious security breach.

> The reason for this is simple; I work for a local
> council (UK), and thus I don't have access to anything server-side.

Is this a case of you wanting to find this out just out of curiosity,
or are you tasked with a work item to do this but your employer is
unable to provide you with the server access needed to do the job?

> We use IE, and there is much resistance to anything else, so MS
> specific is fine. 

IE provides some usable XML features, so if it's an internal application
there's no problem in it being Microsoft-specific. It's only when you
make public applications browser-specific that you need to worry.

///Peter
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