Oh dear.. I've run into a new problem now. It seems that the XML parser at the other end is quite picky about the order the tags appear in. In other words, in the following two examples, only the second is valid (it expects to see name before description) 

<newPhone>
  <description>Test AXL addPhone</description>
  <name>SEP0028A9B0B21</name>
  <product>Cisco 7970</product>
  <model>Cisco 7970</model>
</newPhone>

<newPhone>
  <name>SEP0028A9B0B21</name>
  <description>Test AXL addPhone</description>
  <product>Cisco 7970</product>
  <model>Cisco 7970</model>
</newPhone>

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Is this expected ? It seems to be 'the wrong thing' to me.

In reply to Re: Outputting a hash as XML by smeenz
in thread Outputting a hash as XML by smeenz

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