From: Daniel Pfeifer <Daniel.Pfeifer_at_tradedoubler.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:09:58 +0200

Hi,

I've got a question regarding mapping a XML to objects using JAXB 2.0.

Assume I have following XML-file:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<products>
  <product>
    <name>A product</name>
    <price>19.99</price>
    <addInfo>
      <info seq="1" content="Blah blah"/>
      <info seq="2" content="More blah blah"/>
    </addInfo>
  </product>
  ... more products ...
</products>

Using xjc this would generate a number of classes:

class Products {
  List<Product> product;
}

class Product {
  String name;
  Double price;
  AddInfo addInfo;
}

class AddInfo {
  List<Info> info;
}

class Info {
  Integer seq;
  String content;
}

Unfortunately this won't do in my case since I need to reuse an old
class structure which looks like this:

class Products {
  List<Product> product;
}

class Product {
  String name;
  Double price;
  List<Info> info;
}

class Info {
  Integer seq;
  String content;
}

As you can see there is no AddInfo-class, I basically want to "jump"
over the <addinfo>-element. The question is: How do I annotate this? I
don't think @XmlElement(name = "addinfo/info") like an XPath-expression
will do.

Thanks a lot in advance!
Daniel Pfeifer