Creating survery form with xml

Hi,
I have urgent requirement to creat survey questionaire form where user can download survey form and fill it offline and then post it through mail to particular id where all info related to him will be stored in DB.
I was looking to xml and java for this where survey form comes as xml file and user fills it and then mail it and at other end java can read it and stores info in DB .
Can anyone suggest how it can be done or has more idea.
Thanks
Rakesh

Rakesh,
If it is an absoloute requirement that the survey be sent through email, an xml file would provide a standard format for the survey data and make it easy to process.
On the other hand, if you are sending the survey to a servlet (recommended) then perhaps parameters are the way to go (depending on how many survey questions there are and what you want to do with the data after recieving it).
If there are a lot of questions then it can get quite fiddly to process all the parameters (you'd typically send one per question). This also ties the recieving servlet to a particular data format (i.e. if you want to add or remove a question, you need to recompile the servlet).
I'd suggest wrapping the survey data in XML using javascript like I mentioned before and send that XML string as a single parameter. That way you can have your servlet parse the string and then pass on a Document object to another class for processing. If you decide you want to do something different with this data then you can just change this class.
Whether it's easier or not to process/produce XML vs HTML parameters really depends on how complex your XML structure is and how many parameters you need. Overall, XML gives you greater flexibility but you will have to write the javascript for generating it. Using straight parameters is the quicker way.
If you use XML, the important thing is to not let the user directly edit the XML file.
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