# XML Writing Utility for Solid Pods?
**URL:** https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121
**Category:** Solid App Development FAQs
**Created:** [January 19, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121 "2019-01-19T19:53:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@perplexicon](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/perplexicon)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121/1 "2019-01-19T19:53:50Z")
Hey all!
I was curious if anybody knew of any way to read/write to an xml doc, or xml docs, that reside within the solid pod.
Currently, the way I have this setup is through a simple ajax call to a welcoming php script that handles the writing of files on the server-side.
Any information on this would be great!
Thank you, thank you :).
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### Author:  [@aveltens](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/aveltens)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121/2 "2019-01-19T22:21:38Z")
You can use the [REST API](https://github.com/solid/solid-spec/blob/master/api-rest.md) to put any file to the server
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### Author:  [@bourgeoa](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/bourgeoa)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121/3 "2019-01-19T22:41:33Z")
If you want to edit the file you can use [Solid-ide](http://forum.solidproject.org/t/solid-ide-solside-is-now-on-github/711)
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### Author:  [@jeffz](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/jeffz)
#### Post date: [January 19, 2019, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121/4 "2019-01-19T22:49:03Z")
Or, for something between learning the REST API and using a GUI, [https://github.com/jeff-zucker/solid-file-client](https://github.com/jeff-zucker/solid-file-client) provides methods for reading and writing files.
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### Author:  [@perplexicon](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/perplexicon)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 1:23am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121/5 "2019-01-20T01:23:49Z")
Very cool. Thank you for that. I’m going to have to look more into the general solid api for that but much appreciated.
Nice that more of it is up on github.
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### Author:  [@perplexicon](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/perplexicon)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121/6 "2019-01-20T01:25:07Z")
Ide might be a bit much but very nice suggestion and I’m glad that that’s up there.
Thanks for the reply! 🙂
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### Author:  [@perplexicon](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/perplexicon)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 1:29am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121/7 "2019-01-20T01:29:15Z")
404 on that for some reason but I am inclined to look for something between REST and a GUI–as you mention.
Nice to have all of these options available though.
Thank you, thank you :).
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### Author:  [@jeffz](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/jeffz)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2019, 1:44am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/xml-writing-utility-for-solid-pods/1121/8 "2019-01-20T01:44:42Z")
Ooops,sorry, fixed the link for solid-file-client above.