How To Dynamically Set Selected Item in SELECT List in DW Object

Hi!
I hope I can explain this situation halfway decently...
I am creating a DW Object that captures specific metadata. In
this case, in the form I have a HTML <SELECT> list of
languages. When the language metadata attribute is first captured
in the form, the application adds the metadata
<meta name=language content="EN">
to the DW document correctly.
Now suppose the user wants to update their metadata.in order
to change the language attribute. I would like the metadata form
when it redisplays to have "EN" selected in the language attribute,
so that the user knows what the current value of the language
attribute is. If the user changes the language attribute to,say,
Japanese, the next time the metadata form displays, I would like
have "JP" selected in the form, again so the user knows what the
current value of the attribute is.
I looked at several of the well-known metadata extensions for
DW, but none of them exhibit the behavior I am looking for (usually
they have English as the default in the form)
This is probably easy, but I am just not seeing it. Thanks
for any help!
Kat---

Hi Envision3D
Thank you for your reply. Unfortunately, none of this
information is stored in a database. It simply gets written as
<meta> tags in an HTML file. When the object is used again,
it reads the HTML file and pre-populates the form for the benefit
of the user. The application pre-populates the text-type inputs
correctly. It does not pre-populate the <select> inputs
correctly. It just leaves them blank. I was hoping to be able to
pre-populate the <select> form element with the selection
that is currently found in the <meta> tag.
<meta name="program" content="HR"> <==== meta tag
found in HTML file
Program: +-----------+
| HR | <==== pre-populated <select> form field
+-----------+
Thanks again!
Kat---

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