Elf Sternberg

That's exactly it, but there are a number of niggling details that drive me to distraction: how do I choose the rendering format? In the case of the author<->serial<->story relationship, containing both in a SOAP or POX object is not supported by the standard so few tools exist to help me with that.

It's more a matter of the number of choices I have, and the "correct" way to do it, that has me up all night.

I did have an inspiration last night, an abstraction of the serial<->story relationship called "works", that would allow for a simple meta-database handle. I'll implement it after I figure out (and publish) a "quick and dirty guide to HTTP Digest Authentication Using Django."