newbie xslt - retreiving data from a form

[Marty Gagnon]

I've been looking into xml/xslt as a solution for seperating presentation from
data. It looks like what I want but I have one question. Once the form
has been rendered, and the user enters some information into the form, how
do I extract the data from the form back into xml?
I thought when the post happens I could use the namespace of the form's input
fields know how to build the xml, but I think there must be a better way.

This is basically what I want to do:

---- Here is the data -----------
<cd>
<title>Fables of a Reconstruction</title>
<artist>REM</artist>
</cd>
<cd>
<title>WAR</title>
<artist>U2</artist>
</cd>

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then using xslt render a form with the title and artist
in <INPUT TYPE="Text" which can be modified,
---------------------------

Title : [Fables of a Reconstruction]
Artist : [REM]

Title : [ Rattle and Hum ]
Artist : [U2]

[SUBMIT BUTTON]

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and then when the submit happens
I want to get the new values out of the form and put them
back into xml WITH THE MODIFIED INFORMATION
--------------------------
<cd>
<title>Fables of a Reconstruction</title>
<artist>REM</artist>
</cd>
<cd>
<title>Rattle and Hum </title>
<artist>U2</artist>
</cd>

 

[Martin Honnen]

I've been looking into xml/xslt as a solution for seperating presentation from
data. It looks like what I want but I have one question. Once the form
has been rendered, and the user enters some information into the form, how
do I extract the data from the form back into xml?

XSLT doesn't know about HTML forms or HTTP form submission so you need
to employ your favourite server side programming language/technique
(e.g. PHP or ASP or JSP or Perl CGI) to process the submitted form data
and update the XML as needed.