Import data in a PDF created by LiveCycle

Anyone know how I can take a txt file or (any other format I can create from a txt file) and import data into a pdf document created in LiveCycle?  Is this possible?  What do I need to do?  Thanks in advance.

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This is definitely what I want to do I can get it to work with a new pdf that I create but not with my current pdf.  When I try to create the xml I just get this.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<form1 xmlns:xfa="http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/" xfa:dataNode="dataGroup"
/>
Any thoughts?

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