What is meta? ×  My post which was aimed at not asking a
question but at sharing knowledge was closed today. When posting
a question on Stack Overflow, there's a little checkbox below
which says "Answer your own question – share your knowledge,
Q&A-style"  I tried finding ways to parse XML with Java via
Groovy but couldn't find one on Stack Overflow. I also found
many people asking a solution for the same but no success. So, I
went on to write a post about it by asking and answering the
same. The sole aim here was to help people who faced a similar
situation. And I was really excited about the fact that I could
contribute (maybe a little) to the ways of XML parsing by
starting this post.  I also got another fellow suggesting a
couple of different ways to achieve the same. Until today when I
saw some community members downvoted and closed my question
without any proper reason. Let me know if my post isn't genuine
or if it's copied or if it's a duplicate or if it's not trying
to solve a problem.  My question -