Posted by Tinkerer on Apr 25, 2011; 12:55am
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/XForm-to-update-my-XML-files-in-the-backend-tp3472381.html

Hi,

I am new to Orbeon Forms; my humble apologies for asking any stupid questions. I want to build a web app that allows users to submit info into a web-form that will update upto 4 different XML files in the backend (server side). These 4 XML files mimic a database and share some kind of a "relational" dependency. Since I am dealing with multiple XML/XSD files as my dB, I have settled for XFORMS and preferred Orbeon Forms for it's Form Builder Tool and it's ability to handle different browsers without the need of a plugin and the hope that I wouldn't need any Javascript/AJAX knowledge. My form must allow users an easy way to add, edit, delete elements in the back-end XML files as well as offer some kind of query and also display data from the XML if needed. My form would need to update different elements in the 4 back-end XML files. What is the best way to design this webapp. What will I need at a minimum? Are there any examples that you can point me to for the first version of my "XML editing" webapp. Thanks for any guidance.