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

From
Michael Kay <>
To
'Andrew Welch' <>, 'Michael Glavassevich' <>
Date
2008-04-13T08:25:51Z
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RE: [xml-dev] Best way to create an XML document
> 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.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/