Build a form with xml

I recently was "volunteered" to build a new website for a local non-profit organization. I am fairly descent at building static sites(but brand new to dynamic), and I have run into an issue with a form area on the site. They have 3 training signup pages that are quite lengthy, and need updated regularly. The folks there are not exactly computer-savy so I am worried about them going into Dreamweaver and messing stuff up. I am trying to find a way to give them an easy way to update the form as necessary and save them the expense of hiring someone to update the list as needed. I have been doing some research on xml and spry to see if this would apply to forms. Can xml populate a form, with all needed checkboxes, and other info needed? The current site is build in html, with php form-to-mail attributes.
Ideally I would want the form to auto-delete training dates that have already passed, add an easy admin function to add new content via xml, and retain the form to mail function. Here is the address of the page as it is right now: http://www.clickhappytesting.com/wcrTraining.html . Currently there are only like 20 or so items on the form, but there are usually like 100 per form.
I am using DWcs4 so any help, or direction to where I could find help, or even an extension that would work would be GREATLY appreciated.
Thank You,
Shawn Lloyd

Originally posted by: mirdous.seznam.cz
Hi
I do have same problem with EMF form based editor and source page. My
Form page is working from EMF w/o problems but I do not know how to put
xml editor to create source page to be in sync w/ model.
Can you guys help me w/ this. Do you have any code anywhere or doc to
follow so I'm able to get into it. Tnx
Miro
> Daniel Rohe wrote:
> I'm currently experimenting with the EMF integration of the WST
> (org.eclipse.wst.common.emf). So far I've got managed to load a self-defined
> model through an implementation of the TranslatorResource and
> TranslatorResourceFactory, these classes are also used by the JST components
> in the plugin org.eclipse.jst.core. After finishing the model I want to do
> the same step and create an editor with some form based pages and a single
> source page. So I'm also interested in hearing something about synchronizing
> EMF models and SSE editor.
>
> Regards
> Daniel
>
> "Yang Liu" <[email protected]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:65b2a87819b4d1f5b2d0ba8349e996db$[email protected]..
>
>>A question on EMF and SSE.
>>
>>I am trying to build a multipage web.xml editor. With both customized
>>editor page (form based) and a source code page.
>>
>>For the source code page, I want to use the SSE xml editor. For the
>>customized editor page, I want to use the EMF model for web.xml (there
>>seemed to have all the EMF model artifacts there already in jst).
>>
>>The question I have is how to combine them together? Is there any existing
>>implementation for this kind of usage or is there any plan? How to make
>>the pages (and views) synchronized?
>>
>>Thanks and regards,
>>yang
>>
>
>
>

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