I know this isn't really what XPath is for but if I have a HashMap of XPath expressions to values how would I go about building an XML document. I've found dom-4j's DocumentHelper.makeElement(branch, xpath) except it is incapable of creating attributes or indexing. Surely a library exists that can do this? Map xMap = new HashMap(); xMap.put("root/entity/@att", "fooattrib"); xMap.put("root/array[0]/ele/@att", "barattrib"); xMap.put("root/array[0]/ele", "barelement"); xMap.put("root/array[1]/ele", "zoobelement"); would result in: <root> <entity att="fooattrib"/> <array><ele att="barattrib">barelement</ele></array> <array><ele>zoobelement</ele></array> </root>