How to pass a java.util.HashMap in an XML

[Merrin Thomas]

Can anybody tell how a Hash map can be reperesented in a XML file and read it.
Expecting a reply,

Merrin.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Welcome to JavaRanch.

You would need to represent a list of key/value pairs, which is easy if the keys and values are simple types. If they are complex types, things get trickier. If nothing suggests itself to you, you could use a java.beans.XMLEncoder, and see what kind of XML that generates from your data.