Email Task

System

I am writing a custom email task in Java, and following the example class MailNotificationTask.

For the content of the email, the example creates an XML document, then transforms it using XSL. Is there any particular reason for this? Is the XML used elsewhere?

We need to have custom content for the emails generated by this task. I'm wondering if, rather than create an XML document and transform it, if I can't just use a templating engine (such as Velocity or Freemarker) to generate the body of the message. Does anyone see any problems with this?

Thanks,
Dhruva