hey,
ok, but my main issue is to have collections inside collection that will hold the data,
I dont want the code to look like this:
Digester digester = new Digester();
    // This method pushes this (SampleDigester) class to the Digesters
    // object stack making its methods available to processing rules.
    digester.push(this);
    // This set of rules calls the addDataSource method and passes
    // in five parameters to the method.
    digester.addCallMethod("datasources/datasource", "addDataSource", 5);
    digester.addCallParam("datasources/datasource/name", 0);
    digester.addCallParam("datasources/datasource/driver", 1);
    digester.addCallParam("datasources/datasource/url", 2);
    digester.addCallParam("datasources/datasource/username", 3);
    digester.addCallParam("datasources/datasource/password", 4);
   
    // This method starts the parsing of the document.
    digester.parse("datasource.xml");

I would like to create a function that will get a single collection (key value type) that will hold inside more collections, and to iterate through them and create the xml.
How do I do that?
Can you give me a simple example with the simple xml eample I wrote above?
Thanks again man
Yossi

hi,
I have this example:

   DocumentBuilderFactory dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    DocumentBuilder db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();

    Document document = db.newDocument();

    Element book = document.createElement("book");
    book.setAttribute("id", "javanut4");          
    document.appendChild(book);                    
    for(int i = 1; i <= 3; i++) {                  
        Element chapter = document.createElement("chapter");
        Element title = document.createElement("title");
        title.appendChild(document.createTextNode("Chapter " + i));
        chapter.appendChild(title);
        chapter.appendChild(document.createElement("para"));
        book.appendChild(chapter);
    }

    TransformerFactory tf = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
    Transformer transformer = tf.newTransformer();

    DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);          
    StreamResult result = new StreamResult(System.out);  

    transformer.transform(source, result);
  }

it creates:
/*

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<book id="javanut4">
   <chapter>
      <title>Chapter 1</title>
      <para/>
   </chapter>
   <chapter>
      <title>Chapter 2</title>
      <para/>
   </chapter>
   <chapter>
      <title>Chapter 3</title>
      <para/>
   </chapter>
</book>
*/

can you think of a generic function that will create the above without the need to hard code the name of the elements inside the function ,such as book, & id & javanut4?
thanks