Recreating PDF from XML

Hello,
    I have designed a form in Adobe LiveCycle designer with rights enabled PDF,As we cant collect PDF directly from users due to 500 use licensing limit.Plan is to have users send the XML via 'Submit By Email' button and from my end recreate the PDF.
  My question is whats the ways/options do i have to recreate the PDF based on values in XML.
  This would be part of set up- where an application would connect to email server, download the email message with XML attachment;review the xml and if some tags/nodes are true then recreate the   PDF file with data from XML and save it locally.
  Now the email template have a statement that ". Adobe Acrobat Professional 7 or later can process this data by importing it back into the blank form....."
Does that mean I can simply import the XML file to the form I created and voila i have my PDF,but how can i achieve the same via an application.
As always Thanks in advance.

You open the form in Acrobat and then simply use the data import under the forms tools. You could also use tools to save the data to a database (sorry, I don't know how to do it, but know it can be done).

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