Hi Folks

Let me state to begin with that I am not a software developer, nor have I ever programmed for PDAs.  I am a web developer, doing mostly database driven sites using either ASP or PHP.  I have made wireless websites using WML.

I'm currently quoting on a job to make a searchable appendix of diseases (for animals) that will be online.  I'm figuring I'll drive it from some database platform and use either ASP or PHP to generate the web pages.  They are interested in a second phase of the contact where the appendix could be downloaded to a PDA.  My initial thoughts on this would be to use the PDA browser and make an application that reads from an XML file that is generated from the database when they download the application (to ensure it is the most up to date version of the database).  Once the application was installed, the user could download updated database (XML) files whenever they came out.

This may be a simplistic and unworkable solution, that's why I'm here.  Is using C+ or C++ the only way to go when making an application for a handheld?  If so, where would the data be stored?

Please straighten me out on this - I need to design the web page to be as scalable as possible should they decide to go ahead with the Palm Project.