Re: [xml-dev] Best way to create an XML document

["James Fuller" <james.fuller.2007@gmail.com>]

having found xstream useful in the past, I was happy to discover this
timely article

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-xstream/

Jim Fuller

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:22 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/04/2008, Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com> wrote:
>  > > So to bring the thread back around to the original point -
>  >  > the easiest way to create an XML document is to use JAXB
>  >  > 2.1...  annotate your outermost container class then just
>  >  > marshall it out.  That's just 2 additional lines in its most
>  >  > basic form.
>  >
>  >
>  > I suspect this is only the easiest way to do it in cases where there is a
>  >  fairly close correspondence between the existing Java data structure and the
>  >  XML you want to create. Where I have had to do this, this has never been the
>  >  case.
>
>  The solution there is to have an extra layer between your code and the
>  pojos that map to the XML... Keep the XML to pojo really simple so
>  there is a close correspondence between the two, moving any complex
>  conversion to the extra layer.
>
>
>
>  --
>  Andrew Welch
>  http://andrewjwelch.com
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