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

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@...>
• To: "'Andrew Welch'" <andrew.j.welch@...>,"'Michael Glavassevich'" <mrglavas@...>
• Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:25:51 +0100

> 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/