Simple XML advice required

Since I have never done XML before and while I am enjoying my Uni holidays, I thought I'd give my self a challenge.
Is it possible to create a GUI to connect to a specific site, (my university website and access all the Information using GUI just as if I was using the website, except that all the relevant information and headlings are stored in specific TextFields and Panels?
If it is then do I have to have access to the websites servers to modify it with my GUI XML.
The University website has a student facility, and ofcourse has a Login screen and from there on the user can view his marks, unit material etc.
Could some one please advice me with a helpful tutorial site so that I could try and incorporate it in my GUI application.
Thank you

XML is just a format for data. It isn't a language and it doesn't do anything. It isn't magic pixie dust either.
You could store the configuration of your GUI in XML if you liked, or you could store it as serialized Java objects or as some other text format. But that has nothing to do with connecting to websites.
You generally use a URLConnection object to connect to a website. But that has nothing to do with XML.

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These days there are more quetions than answeres on any forum, and very seldom anybody shares the answer if they lucky enough to work it out so here is my answer for the above question
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