Project Background
==================

I started this project for two reasons; to have a text file address book that would be portable across as many devices
as possible, and to write a non-trivial application with an XML back end.

I wanted to experiment with XML document creation, parsing, validation and manipulation. In particular I wanted to use
the ElementTree_ library.

Over time I added the :doc:`web_access` module to allow searching via a page. I then added the ability to output an
address book to an HTML script to produce a compact, portable and readable version of an address book. This is useful
for keeping on a phone or tablet.

.. _ElementTree: http://effbot.org/elementtree