i can vouch for castorXML( http://castor.exolab.org/ ), same idea... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 3:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: xml is html in fourletter word format > Sorry, had to to vent, been parsing/generating a lot of xml lately. > The fact that xml has only three letters doesn't change my opinion! > Have a good weekend folks. Have you looked into JAXB? Given a DTD, it automatically generates a collection of Java classes with getter/setter methods for each tag name. You can then convert a valid XML document directly into JavaBeans. And you can also convert the beans back to an XML string. JAXB has some limitations (it's also distributed only under a trial license at the moment) but it's made dealing with XML completely trivial in my case. Let JAXB create the bean, save it as an attribute in scope, and let JSP present the data directly. And none of that horrible DOM syntax. Devon
