Some time back I needed to generate an XML file in a Java web application. I attempted to figure out how to do it "right". The only "special" requirement was th

Some time back I needed to generate an XML file in a Java web application. I attempted to figure out how to do it "right". The only "special" requirement was that it is formatted in a readable way. So I was figuring out the Java XML stuff (don't remember what that was exactly, probably standard). But at some point the timeout in my brain kicked in, and I just wrote a loop generating the XML by brute-force through PrintWriter or something. I even escaped strings right since some library I had available conveniently offered the escape method (Guava maybe?).