XML data to HTML form and back

Question

I am storing data in XML databases. Now I want users to be able to edit certain records. E.g. my db could look like this:

<items>
  <item id="1">
    <prop_a>some text</prop_a>
    <prop_b>TRUE</prop_b>
    <prop_c>29.01.2010</prop_c>
    ...
  </item>
  // next item and so on

Is there a tool which can generate a html form (for which it will certainly need additional information, e.g. which fields are text fields, which might be checkboxes, or drop-down fields, whatever), fill it with the data for one record (this would be everything in <item>), and also take the user input (GET / POST content) and convert this again into XML? Maybe it could even do some checks, maybe via a call-back function. (I'd prefer something free in PHP to make the wish-list complete :)

Answer 1

You could to use a XSLT document to transform that XML into HTML.

Answer 2

PHP XSLT:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.xslt.php

http://us.php.net/xsl

http://phpbuilder.com/manual/en/function.xslt-free.php