Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact general-help@xml.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list general@xml.apache.org Received: (qmail 51958 invoked from network); 31 May 2000 19:42:59 -0000 Received: from birao.phoenix-pop.com (205.217.34.15) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 31 May 2000 19:42:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 16777 invoked from network); 31 May 2000 19:42:32 -0000 Received: from tanta.phoenix-pop.com (HELO phoenix-pop.com) (205.217.34.201) by birao.phoenix-pop.com with SMTP; 31 May 2000 19:42:32 -0000 Message-ID: <39356B33.FF403C0E@phoenix-pop.com> Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 12:42:43 -0700 From: "K.C. Jones" Organization: Phoenix Pop X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: general@xml.apache.org Subject: Re: building DOM tree from scratch References: <31C6E19B36C2D311936100805F6F3991018B01@T1X-MAIL> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Keith, If you can stomach working with pre-release code, you might consider JDOM. (http://www.jdom.org/docs/faq.html) Using JDOM you can 'convert' your data structure to an XML document, then 'convert' that XML to a DOM tree. Unless you need the XML file, you needn't ever file it out. Something to consider. Cheers, KC