Create xml in java

write-xml.groovy

import org.w3c.dom.*;
import javax.xml.parsers.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;

DocumentBuilderFactory docFactory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder docBuilder = docFactory.newDocumentBuilder();

//root elements
Document doc = docBuilder.newDocument();

Element rootElement = doc.createElement("response");

Element metaData = doc.createElement("webMetaData");
rootElement.appendChild(metaData)

Element title = doc.createElement("title");
title.setAttribute("type", "failed"); //adds an attribute
title.setTextContent("Unable to read info about this page.")
metaData.appendChild(title)

doc.appendChild(rootElement);

 
TransformerFactory transformerFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
Transformer transformer = transformerFactory.newTransformer();
DOMSource source = new DOMSource(doc);

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
StreamResult result =  new StreamResult(writer);
transformer.transform(source, result);

println writer