Generate xml form retrieved query...

Question

HI,
To start with am working to generate xml programatically for the first time ,I'd appreciate if anybody could help me out on the following...
I have some records in the database and am supposed to generate an xml file from the retrieved query and store the xml in a specific location.
iam using DOM parser to write the xml file.
Please let me know as of what is the classpath that i should set and what i need to compile my class
How can i generate the required xml file.
Thanks in advance...
Great day ahead....

Answer 1

hi thans for the code and after writing the folloing code am getting the erros as
I had set my classpath to Jdom.jar and compiled and got this error...can u let me know the classpath that i have to set????
i think it is the problem with only classpath( if am thinking right)......
location: class com.Fortune.adminusers.AdminUsers
Element root = new Element("top");
^
src\Admin\AdminUsers.java:48: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class Element
location: class com.Fortune.adminusers.AdminUsers
Element root = new Element("top");
^
src\Admin\AdminUsers.java:53: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class Element
location: class com.Fortune.adminusers.AdminUsers
Element next = new Element("next");
^
src\Admin\AdminUsers.java:53: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : class Element
location: class com.Fortune.adminusers.AdminUsers
Element next = new Element("next");
^
src\Admin\AdminUsers.java:56: cannot resolve symbol
symbol : variable Format
location: class com.Fortune.adminusers.AdminUsers
XMLOutputter writer = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat());
^
------------------------Code Sample-----------------------------------------------
import java.sql.*;
import <app packages>
import org.jdom.Document;
import org.jdom.JDOMException;
import org.jdom.input.DOMBuilder;
import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;
public class <XXXXXXX>
private DBC dbConnector = null;
public Users getUsers(String loginid)
          Users user = null;
          ResultSet rs_users=null;
          Statement get_users=null;
          Connection conn=null;
               try
                    String query_select_user = "";
                    query_select_user = <Database Query>
                    conn = dbConnector.getConnection();
                    get_users = conn.createStatement();
                    rs_users = get_users.executeQuery(query_select_user);
                    if((rs_users != null) && (rs_users.next()))
                         do
                              user = new Users();
                              user.setMainMod(rs_users.getString("MainModuleId"));
                              user.setModDesc(rs_users.getString("ModuleDesc"));
                              String top = user.getMainMod();
                              Element root = new Element("top");
                              root.setText(top);
                              String child = user.getModDesc();
                              System.out.println(top);
                              System.out.println(child);
                              Element next = new Element("next");
                              next.setText(child);
                              Document doc = new Document(root);
                              XMLOutputter writer = new XMLOutputter(Format.getPrettyFormat());
                              OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("1.xml");
                              writer.output(doc, out);
                              writer.output(doc, System.out);
                         }while(rs_users.next());
               }catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}
                    finally
                         try
                              if ( rs_users != null)
                              rs_users.close();
                              if(get_users!=null)
                              get_users.close();
                              if(conn!=null)
                              conn.close();
                         }catch (SQLException se){}
     return user;
}