Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder; import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.Element; public class Main { public static Document startXMLDocument(String _firstTag) { DocumentBuilderFactory dbfac = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); DocumentBuilder docBuilder = null; Document doc = null; try { docBuilder = dbfac.newDocumentBuilder(); doc = docBuilder.newDocument(); Element xmlRoot = doc.createElement(_firstTag); doc.appendChild(xmlRoot); } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) { System.out.println("C:" + e.getClass() + "\nM:" + e.getMessage()); return null; } return doc; } }