we can send the result of a program to Hudson in XML format as shown here http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Monitoring+external+jobs this works fine! now I tried writing a python script to generate an xml of similar format. it runs fine in python IDLE and gives the desired xml. the problem I am facing is, I don't understand how can I send the result of this script to Hudson such that it simply interprets the generated xml and displays according to it. when I send it by the method shown in the above wiki page under the heading "Monitoring an execution", hudson displays the xml in the console output and says that it's a success!! but i don't want that as u can understand--I want it to parse the xml and display result according to it..plz help.. I am trying to monitor an external job.