From: Pelenur, Matias <pelenur_at_amazon.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:07:47 -0700

Hi,
I'm trying to make use of "simple binding" to have two complexTypes defined in a schema which both have @XmlRootElement annotation when generated, so they the sub-type can be marshalled individually (without requiring a surrounding root element).

I followed the instructions on http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2006/03/why_does_jaxb_p.html and I am using the latest JAXB release, 2.0.2-b01-fcs. I added the <xs:annotation> block with <xjc:simple/>, and have extension="true" in my ant XJC task.

When the classes get generated, the MainElement class has @XmlRootElement on it, but the SubElement class does not. Any ideas?

In my schema I have something like this:

<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
           jaxb:version="2.0"
           xmlns:xjc="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/xjc"
           jaxb:extensionBindingPrefixes="xjc">

    <xs:annotation>
     <xs:appinfo>
      <jaxb:globalBindings>
        <xjc:simple />
      </jaxb:globalBindings>
     </xs:appinfo>
    </xs:annotation>

    <xs:element name="mainElement">
        <xs:complexType >
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element name="subElement" type="subElement" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
                    <xs:annotation>
                        <xs:appinfo>
                            <jaxb:property name="subElements"/>
                        </xs:appinfo>
                    </xs:annotation>
                </xs:element>
            </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
    </xs:element>

    <xs:complexType name="subElement">
        <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="attr1" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
            <xs:element name="attr2" type="xs:string" minOccurs="1" maxOccurs="1"/>
        </xs:sequence>
    </xs:complexType>
</xs:schema>

Thanks,
matias