Possible to grab xml post data to create a product to add to cart?

[jrinco11]

hey ya'll, so I'm looking at different ways of implementing something...

I have a catalog I am able to retrieve product information from a website which when "add to cart" is clicked, on a particular product, it will send xml data via a FORM-POST to a url of my choosing. I can't seem to find out if it is possible to have zencart be able to utillize this xml data about the product, ie:

<Root>
	<Item basket_id=”number I create”>
		<ItemID>AAA</ItemID>
		<Description>Textual description</Description>
		<Quantity>Number</Quantity>
		<Price>Number</Price>
		<DimensionA>Usually a number</DimensionA>
		<DimensionB> Usually a number </ DimensionB>
	</Item>
</Root>

and add it to a basket/cart in zencart. From what I have been able to gather, the only items that are 'addable' to a cart in zencart are products created within the zencart software itself -- in other words, I believe I cannot use external (to zencart) data to add a product into a cart -- is that correct, or is this actually possible? (or is what I'm trying to do totally not clear, haha?)

[DrByte]

Zen Cart works only with products in its database. It doesn't offer you the ability to create products out of thin air on-the-fly without adding them to the database first.

[jrinco11]

Zen Cart works only with products in its database. It doesn't offer you the ability to create products out of thin air on-the-fly without adding them to the database first.

ah, alright ,that's what I was thinking -- but just to be sure, you understand what I'm talking about, right? I retrieve the product information from POST by XML from a third party provider, and am trying to create a cart for these items.

Since zencart is not able to do this particular function, any suggestion of what could?

thanks for your help thus far!