diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index ae5d271010..8bc1670e84 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -476,3 +476,11 @@ David  15 Jan 2006
             eah_server_status.php (removed)
             sample_server_status.php (removed)
             server_status.php (removed)
+
+David  15 Jan 2006
+    - user web: add optional team_id argument to team_lookup.php
+        (returns XML description of a particular team)
+
+    html/
+        user/
+            team_lookup.php
diff --git a/html/user/team_lookup.php b/html/user/team_lookup.php
index 1a834515b1..d0addd3f6d 100644
--- a/html/user/team_lookup.php
+++ b/html/user/team_lookup.php
@@ -11,7 +11,20 @@ $team_name = $_GET["team_name"];
 $name_lc = strtolower($team_name);
 $name_lc = escape_pattern($name_lc);
 $format = get_str("format", true);
+$team_id = get_int("team_id", true);
  
+if ($team_id) {
+    $team = lookup_team($team_id);
+    require_once ('../inc/xml.inc');
+    xml_header();
+    if ($team) {
+        show_team_xml($team);
+    } else {
+        echo "<error>\nno such team\n</error>\n";
+    }
+    exit();
+}
+
 $query = "select * from team where name like '%$name_lc%'";
 $result_list = mysql_query($query);