The J2EE™ Tutorial Second Edition

Generating XML Data

This section takes you step by step through the process of constructing an XML document. Along the way, you'll gain experience with the XML components you'll typically use to create your data structures.

Writing a Simple XML File

You'll start by writing the kind of XML data you can use for a slide presentation. To become comfortable with the basic format of an XML file, you'll use your text editor to create the data. You'll use this file and extend it in later exercises.

Creating the File

Using a standard text editor, create a file called slideSample.xml.

Note

Here is a version of it that already exists: slideSample01.xml. (The browsable version is slideSample01-xml.html.) You can use this version to compare your work or just ...