EDI with PHP?

Hi, The company I work for is starting to lose contracts because they are not capable of EDI. As I seem to be the only person in the company who has heard of EDI and knows what it stands for I am assumed to be an expert :-) Anyway, I would like to suggest that instead of EDI we use XML and use PHP both as a parser and a creater of the EDI like transactions. I would propose they are sent over the net and probably PGP encrypted or signed. I have done some minor work with PHP and XML, mainly credit card authorisation, but wondered how suited it would be to this kind of app? Any ideas/pointers? Regards Jon -- Jon Farmer Systems Programmer, Entanet www.enta.net Tel 01952 428969 Mob 07968 524175 PGP Key available, send blank email to pgpkey@bctech.co.uk