Help: Using XML to format Java output

Question

I built an application that uses an SQL DB (uses HSQLDB). Users are prompted to enter data via the keyboard to store in the tables.
The users must be able to query the database as well, to see what is in the tables.
My aim is to use XML to show the results of the query, so that it is formatted nicely.
However, I am new to this and not sure how to start putting in the XML tags etc. I think I know which part of the code to modify. This is the part that does the displaying.
      * Ouptut the contents of a recordset to the console with
      * the column names from the tables
      * @param rs the ResultSet to display
     public static void print(ResultSet rs) throws SQLException {
          ResultSetMetaData meta   = rs.getMetaData();
             int               colmax = meta.getColumnCount();
             int               i;
             Object            o       = null;
          String coln            = meta.getColumnName(1);     
             for (;rs.next();) {
                 for (i = 0; i < colmax; ++i) {
                o = rs.getObject(i + 1);// Is SQL the first column is indexed
          coln = meta.getColumnName(i+1);                  
                                            // with 1 not 0
          System.out.println(coln +":"+'\t'+ o.toString() + " ");
            System.out.println(" ");
}Can anyone give me any guidance or just a hint for me to start?
Thank you very much.

Answer 1

Using DOM would probably be the easiest solution, though not fast enough for your problem, as many records might come out of the RS...
So if performance is an issue, try producing XML with SAX (read the excellent Dr.Clap tips here: http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=34&thread=326617)
Else use DOM: chapter 7 here: http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs/1.1/tutorial/doc/index.html