There are just few simple steps:

1. Create a List
2. Open SharePoint Designer 2007 and open a blank .aspx page.
3. Delete all the code generated in .aspx page
4. In the Task pane open the Data Source Library and click Show Data
5. Select the Title field and than click Insert Selected Fields as … Multiple Item View
6. In Change Layout select Plain List of Titles.
7. Add XML declaration: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″ ?>
8. Remove all HTML tags
9. After <WebPartPages:DataFormWebPart runat=”server” add additional property SuppressWebPartChrome=”True” wich will prevent the chrome being displayed. In short: now <table> tags around the web part.
10. Go to the <xsl:template section and replace the <p> tags with: <xsl:text disable-output-escaping=”yes”>&lt;Root&gt;</xsl:text> … – this will be the first node of the XML file. You will also need to end this tag.
11. do the same for all other child nodes you want to display.

List in SharePoint:

XML Output:

For the source code go to www.robertkuzma.com.