Having created an overview of how I wanted to craft a simple journal in XML, I next created an XML Schema Definition for the simple journal to validate against.
Having now crafted a Web application to create the XML files I'm able to move onto the prettier aspects of display for the XML files.
I've created a sample simple journal that uses an XSLT (XSL Transforms, or extensible stylesheet language transformations) to make the display a little prettier.
You're more than welcome to take the XSLT file and craft it to your own purposes.
I'm sure I'll tweak the output further as time goes by; this is purely meant to be a quick working version.
Suggestions or new transforms welcome and appreciated.