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Interesting tidbit, has anyone seen this?

From: Han Ming Ong <hanming_at_mac.com>
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 11:03:33 -0700

Given this schema fragment

   <xs:element name="local-tx-datasource">
     <xs:complexType>
       <xs:sequence>
         <xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"
ref="user-name"/>
         <xs:element minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded"
ref="password"/>
         <xs:element minOccurs="0" ref="idle-timeout-minutes"/>
       </xs:sequence>
     </xs:complexType>
   </xs:element>

I realized that JAXB can unmarshal the following XML fragment, where
<password> and <user-name> are out of order and then magically correct
the order during marshalling:

   <local-tx-datasource>
     <password></password>
     <user-name>sa</user-name>
   </local-tx-datasource>

Well, I know, I know, it is probably a bug but what a great side effect
if you don't need validation during unmarshalling :-)

By the way, the magic (or bug) happens when you add
'maxOccurs="unbounded"' to the elements.

Han Ming