The trouble is that the statement “100% XML-compliant” refers only to the syntax, not the spirit. It is entirely possible to create closed, proprietary IT systems that are 100% XML based.

Whatever the reason, you're lacking in XML savvy and want to remedy the situation. Well, you're in the right place. In this article, Lamont Adams gives an introduction of XML and its basic syntax.

As the Groovy code above demonstrates, only a few lines of code are required to parse the XML and to print out its results as part of longer strings. The single line new XmlSlurper ().parse ...