It would great if the writer would remember the structure of the file (if already exists) to keep comments and formatting so that user is not lost when reopening the file. Milos has written that, altho with jdom.

please see http://cvs.mevenide.codehaus.org/cvsweb.cgi/mevenide-core/src/java/org/mevenide/project/io/CarefulProjectMarshaller.java?rev=1.4