I am new to cgi modules but more knowledgable than my associates. So I've been recently given the task of generating an xml file from the data provided by a html form. After doing some research I came across CGI:XML and XUpdate(Part of XML:DB). They both seem able to do what I need however I don't know much about either.

Here is what I want to be able to do:
1 - Have a html page with a form
2 - A cgi script that writes the data from the form to an xml file.

This is where the problem begins. How should the html form design coordinate with the cgi script to parse the data into an xml file. I can't find any tutorials on this concept but yet everywhere I read, it is do-able.

I don't have any starter code to display, I just really need someone to point me to a good tutorial on this or a small sample with both the html & perl script.

Any help would be more than I have now. Thanks

In reply to HTML Form Data to XML file by drgnfly-creatns

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