Can you use a form to add to an XML document?

[LenLindquist]

Hello,

I'm a beginner at XML and have what I assume is a fairly basic set of questions:

Can I have a form written in XHTML that asks for the content of various fields in an XML document and add to that XML document on-the-fly? E.g., ask for "name" and then have the name they enter appear in my XML document.

Can I do it without an application server of any kind?

Can I do it without JavaScript?

Thanks much,
Len

 

[petey]

Do you want the form data saved on the server in the form of XML? It will require some sort of server side program to parse the form data and then save it.

Someday XForms will address these problems more directly, but right now you have to use a script to laboriously parse the form data.

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[LenLindquist]

Petey:

Yes, saving the information on the server is what I was hoping to do.

Doing things "laboriously" is exactly what I'm trying to avoid by using XML. I suppose I'll wait until these XForms you speak of are developed and supported by the major browsers.

Thanks for responding!

Len

 

[petey]

I'd guess we're looking at a good five years before XForms begin to be widely supported by commonly used browsers, but who knows?

petey

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