Fill a form with xml or excell data

I am not even sure exactly how I need to ask this and I am sure I am going to use some terms that are incorrect. Here we go.
I have a pdf form that I created in LiveCycle ES. I can import data that is saved in xml. Here is what I am trying to complete. I have users that are going to be registering for an event online. I need to take the data that is filled out online and send it to the parent org in a pdf. I would like to take the pdf that I created and import all of the data into it. Each registrant on a new page. I will be more than happy to send examples of the files and data that I am working with.
Thanks,
Scott

Hi
I found what I was looking for at the following forum thread.
http://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jsp?id=471864
Thanks to Steve Yeager

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