Adobe Form built in designer to redirect to FTP Server

Hello:
I had created a Adobe form connected to a MIcrosoft Database which will provide data connections and import data into the access database. As the information in the PDF form is used to populate a application, I would like to have the form when submitted send a XML file with only the specific data they need to the FTP server. Has anyone experienced this? or know of a possible solution?
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Assuming you are on webforms >= 9i you could create an aliasmatch and use web.show_document with a relativepath to show your HTML file.
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