A fairly technical article on how the University of East Anglia dealt with the problem of generating IMS-compliant XML files describing student profile information from multiple data sources (the purpose of which would be to use them within their course management system, or ‘virtual/managed learning environment’ as the Brits say). By adopting this type of middleware architecture, they have also developed a more generic solution which can generate other types of files and deal with other types of data sources. – SWL