How to take HTML form data and write to XML using JQuery?

Question

I have a form that looks like this:

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Answer 1

You won't be able to create or edit a local XML file using javascript/jquery because of security concerns. Imagine going to a website and the webmaster wrote some code doing who knows what and puts this in a file on your computer...

The only way to write to a local file using javascript is to use cookies or HTML5 localStorage.

localStorage will allow you to store string keys and values of arrays and/or property names and values of objects.

If you need an XML file you will have to call a server-side script that has permission to write the file on the server, which you can then access via it's url.