com.sun.xml.tree package

[Weigang Gu]

Hi, folks:
I want to create a XML output document from my JSP page and I am thinking about using com.sun.xml.tree.ElementNode and com.sun.xml.tree.XmlDocument classes. (methods in those are createElement, setAttribute, etc). I think J2EE contains these API. However, when I tried to compile, I was given an error like these classes/methods cannot be found.
Anyone has any idea? what is the best way to create a XML from JSP page?
thanks in advance

[William Brogden]

You will get a lot better results if you do all of your manipulations with the standard dom interfaces instead of trying to use specific classes. Instead of:
com.sun.xml.tree.ElementNode
use
org.w3c.dom.Element
Getting away from specific implementations is the whole idea behind the JAXP package.
Bill

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