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diff --git a/sfa/storage/record.py b/sfa/storage/record.py
index 254ca3d5..9fcab19f 100644
--- a/sfa/storage/record.py
+++ b/sfa/storage/record.py
@@ -33,9 +33,18 @@ class Record:
         # fallback
         return "** undef_datetime **"
     
-    def todict (self):
+    # it may be important to exclude relationships, which fortunately
+    # 
+    def todict (self, exclude_types=None):
+        if exclude_types is None: exclude_types=[]
         d=self.__dict__
-        keys=[k for k in d.keys() if not k.startswith('_')]
+        def exclude (k,v):
+            if k.startswith('_'): return True
+            if exclude_types:
+                for exclude_type in exclude_types:
+                    if isinstance (v,exclude_type): return True
+            return False
+        keys=[k for (k,v) in d.items() if not exclude(k,v)]
         return dict ( [ (k,d[k]) for k in keys ] )
     
     def toxml(self):
@@ -62,25 +71,27 @@ class Record:
         xml_record.parse_dict (input_dict)
         return xml_record.toxml()
 
-    def dump(self, format=None, dump_parents=False):
+    def dump(self, format=None, dump_parents=False, sort=False):
         if not format:
             format = 'text'
         else:
             format = format.lower()
         if format == 'text':
-            self.dump_text(dump_parents)
+            self.dump_text(dump_parents,sort=sort)
         elif format == 'xml':
-            print self.save_to_string()
+            print self.save_as_xml()
         elif format == 'simple':
             print self.dump_simple()
         else:
             raise Exception, "Invalid format %s" % format
 
-    def dump_text(self, dump_parents=False):
-        print "".join(['=' for i in range(40)])
+    def dump_text(self, dump_parents=False, sort=False):
+        print 40*'='
         print "RECORD"
         # print remaining fields
-        for attrib_name in self.fields():
+        fields=self.fields()
+        if sort: fields.sort()
+        for attrib_name in fields:
             attrib = getattr(self, attrib_name)
             # skip internals
             if attrib_name.startswith('_'):     continue
@@ -89,7 +100,7 @@ class Record:
             # handle gid 
             if attrib_name == 'gid':
                 print "    gid:"      
-                print GID(attrib).dump_string(8, dump_parents)
+                print GID(string=attrib).dump_string(8, dump_parents)
             elif attrib_name in ['date created', 'last updated']:
                 print "    %s: %s" % (attrib_name, self.date_repr(attrib_name))
             else: