Creating Authors.xml from Table

 // program to create authors.xml from AUTHORS table

    import javax.xml.parsers.*;
    import java.io.*;
    import org.w3c.dom.*;

    import javax.xml.transform.*;
    import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource;
    import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

    import java.sql.*;

    public class CreateAuthors {

    public static void main(String[] argv)  throws Exception
    {
    DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
    Document  document;

    DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
    document = builder.newDocument();

    // connect to database
    Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
    Connection con = DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:authors","Admin","");
    Statement st = con.createStatement();
    ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery("select * from authors");

    Element authors,author,ele;
    authors  = document.createElement("authors");
    document.appendChild(authors);

    while ( rs.next())
    {
    author = document.createElement("author");
    ele = document.createElement("au_id");
    ele.appendChild(document.createTextNode(rs.getString("au_id")));
    author.appendChild(ele);

    ele = document.createElement("author");
    ele.appendChild(document.createTextNode(rs.getString("author")));
    author.appendChild(ele);

    ele = document.createElement("yearborn");
    ele.appendChild(document.createTextNode(rs.getString("yearborn")));
    author.appendChild(ele);

    authors.appendChild(author);
    }
    rs.close();
    st.close();
    con.close();

    FileWriter fw = new FileWriter("authors.xml");

    // Use a Transformer for output
    TransformerFactory tFactory =  TransformerFactory.newInstance();
    Transformer transformer = tFactory.newTransformer();
    DOMSource source = new DOMSource(document);
    StreamResult result = new StreamResult(fw);
    transformer.transform(source, result);
    } // main 

    }