Writing XML

Now suppose you don't just want to dump out a bunch of raw numbers. Instead you want to produce a well-formed XML document, such as Example 3.2

Example 3.2. The First Ten Fibonacci Numbers in an XML Document
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Fibonacci_Numbers>
  <fibonacci>1</fibonacci>
  <fibonacci>1</fibonacci>
  <fibonacci>2</fibonacci>
  <fibonacci>3</fibonacci>
  <fibonacci>5</fibonacci>
  <fibonacci>8</fibonacci>
  <fibonacci>13</fibonacci>
  <fibonacci>21</fibonacci>
  <fibonacci>34</fibonacci>
  <fibonacci>55</fibonacci>
</Fibonacci_Numbers>

To produce this, just add string literals for the <fibonacci> and </fibonacci> tags inside the print statements, as well as a few extra print statements to produce the XML declaration and the root element start- ...

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