I dont know nothing about XML, but...

Question

could it fit my purposes...
my purpose can be seen here
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=31&thread=155662
I was thinking that I could write the game in a text editor like this... is this XML and how I easily read this in to my game classes?
<scene name=church>
<hotspot action=gotoDoor()>
<posx value=2>...
</hotspot>
</scene>
<script name=gotoDoor()>
<command name=ChangeStateCommand() subject=door state=opened>
</script>

Answer 1

<GAME>
<STARTUP action="Startup"/>
<SCRIPT name="Startup"> <ITEM name="Book" caption="Basic book">
  <INVENTORYIMAGE name="booki.jpg"/>
  <SCENEIMAGE name="books.jpg"/>
  <COMBINATION name="Book2" result="MysticBook"/>
</ITEM>
   <COMMAND type="plotScene" scene="myScene" x="10" y="10" transform="fade"/>
   <COMMAND type="wait" time="1000"/>
   <COMMAND type="activateScene" scene="myScene"/>
</SCRIPT>
<SCENE name="myScene" background="scene.jpg">
  <ITEMIMPL item="Book" x=40 y=78/>
</SCENE>
</GAME>This is my test code... but I have read about the examples and know about nodes and stuff, but still don't know how to easily convert this to object structure. Script, for example, has Vector called commands, and commands are inner classes of script derived all from abstract class command. How do I perform the loading... saving is no problem since i can easily write
Iterator i=commands.iterator();
while (i.hasNext())
((Command) i.next()).outputXML(buffer);
} or something like that... basicly that is pretty complicated too since I have to create xml writer for every command specially...
I was thinking if i make a reader like this but I want your help too, or is there another way...
Parse XML, test object encountered, if class is for example Script, use reflection to create new instance of script. Find the owner instance of this (Game) and perform a method called AddScript also via reflection, and add the script to game. I don't know... sound pretty "errorrious"...