Android Is it possible to define a map in an XML file?

Question

I was trying to define a static hash table that makes use of resources, but I got stonewalled by the impossibility of accessing resources statically.

Then I realized

Answer 1

How can I define a map in XML?

  bar
  baz
  

Put this in res/xml/, and load it using getResources().getXml(). Walk the events to build up a HashMap.