Binding to Java Data Members

You can use the . (dot) operator to assign the values of Java data members to XML, and vice versa. In other words, in addition to using the . operator for public data members, XML maps enable you to use it with accessor pairs.

For each of the examples below, you can write a map that accesses the data using dot notation syntax like the following:

<book_data>
    <book_title>{Book.title}</book_title>
    <in_print>{Book.isInPrint}</in_print>
</book_data>

Public data members such as fields, declared as follows:

public class Book
{
    public String title;
    public boolean inPrint; 
}

Non-Boolean and boolean data exposed as properties through public accessor methods:

public class Book
{
    public String getTitle(){
        return title;
    }
    public void setTitle(String newTitle){
        title = newTitle;
    }
    public boolean isInPrint
    public setInPrint(boolean f)
}