writing contents to a text area or hidden field

Hi,
using Javascript functions, i have created a set of XML tags that
are generated on a new window. ie in my form, the user makes his
selection using the select tags. once these selections are made, using
an appropriate function, i create a set of XML tags that are generated
in a new window. the XML tags are as below:

<user>
<pic>C:\My Documents\abc.jpg</pic>
<tex>C:\My Documents\dat.txt</tex>
</user>

now i want to submit these tags to a server side program ie a
servlet/JSP. i feel i can write that XML to a form field (say, a
textarea, or a hidden field) and then submit that.
but i am not sure how to proceed. how can i write the above XML
onto a textarea or hidden field. it will quite helpful to me if u can
help with some sample code,
thanks in advance,

You can add information to text area, hidden element, or text field by setting the value.

document.FormName.ElementName.value = "blah";

You may also want to look into escaping the string.
escape()

Not sure that is what you are asking, but that is what I can come up with after writing all night and about to go to bed.

Eric

Hi eric,
i will try to make my problem clearer:
1) by using a form, the user selects options like an image, a text file etc
2) in the same form, i use a javascript function that geneates an XML like structure representing the values chosen by the user( say the user has chosen an image abc.jpg and a text file dat.txt). after the user has chosen his selections and clicks on an appropriate button, a new window opens.
3) this window contains XML tags that denote the files chosen by the user:
<user>
<pic>C:\My Documents\abc.jpg</pic>
<tex>C:\My Documents\dat.txt</tex>
</user>
4) now i want these XML tags to be written into a hidden field so that when the user clicks on the submit button, a server-side program on the server can get these tags.
my query is that how can i include all the tags into a hidden field??
hope i have made the question clear.

The way you described it, I hope following can help:
You could write another function that would ask the user for a confirmation of the choices made with a "proceed" button that when clicked would send the choices to the server in a separate file... instead of opening a new window for the confirmation for example...