I recently read an on-line article about Data Access Pages. It sounds like another way of doing stuff over the 'net (Inter,Intra,WAN,LAN).

The URL: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,31769,00.asp

A brief quote:
.....developing Web-based software can seem intimidating. Do you need Active Server Pages? Should you use Java, Perl, or Visual Basic? Do you need to start thinking about the new Microsoft Visual Studio .NET?

Actually, you may need nothing beyond Microsoft Office XP. Data Access Pages (DAPs), which Microsoft quietly integrated into Office, let you do fairly complex Web page development without other development tools. DAPs were introduced in Access 2000 and enhanced greatly in Office XP. They are HTML documents that can contain controls.....

The VFP way (XML) must be better, eh?