All,
as I did not receive any replies so far: Anybody out there who can
comment on the questions I've raised below?
Thanks again,
Andreas
Andreas Loew schrieb:
> (Apologies for cross-posting to JAX-WS and JAXB - I simply was unable to
> determine which list would be the most appropriate place to post this
> question to...)
>
>
> All,
>
> I have to deal with a very specific Web Service where an "outer" request
> document (i.e. the SOAP body) kind of wraps a nested "inner" XML
> document fragment as an xsd:any type.
>
> I do know that I can annotate xsd:any using the jaxb:dom annotation in
> order to get the wrapped document being converted into a W3C DOM instance.
>
> As these inner documents may become quite large (several MBs), from a
> memory consumption and performance perspective, I'd prefer not to create
> a DOM representation for the inner fragment, but rather get access to
> the "plain XML source", such as by getting direct access to the
> Unmarshaller's document source - ideally, the StAX XMLStreamReader or
> XMLEventReader.
>
> Unfortunately,
> https://jaxb.dev.java.net/guide/Avoid_strong_databinding.html
> for now seems just a work in progress... :-)
>
> So my question is:
>
> Is there any way to get access to the original document source for the
> inner fragment, while still using JAX-WS/JAXB2 to map the overall
> document in order to easily process the outer part's content:
>
> - to avoid mapping/binding of the inner fragment to Java classes
> - to avoid creation of a DOM tree representing the inner fragment as well
> - but to "simply" get access to the original source/fragment (as being
> internally provided to the Unmarshaller by the JAX-WS implementation)
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help with this!
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andreas
>
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Andreas Loew
Java Architect
Sun Microsystems (Germany)