Table or CSV Output

Question

I want to create a web page containing a linguistic corpus (e.g. the complete works of Milton). A person should be able to log on, click "verbs", "past tense", "1st person", "singular" (each a separate button or box) and upon hitting submit, they should be able to download every instance of 1sg past tense verbs contained in that corpus on a spreadsheet. I'm decent with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, but what skill is needed to gather these data into a spreadsheet and to make them available for download?

Answer 1

Oh yeah, I'm good with XML too. I'll be tagging every word for its part of speech. ex:

<word pos="verb" tense="past" person="1" number="singular" lexeme="GO">went </word>