how do i set value of a Jaxb XMLelement?

Question

my question is: from the xml scheme :

<topnode>
    topNodeValue
   <bottomnode/> 
</topnode>

generated class with Jaxb looks like

class topnode {
    List<bottomnode> bottomnodeList;
}

Which does not generate the value field to set value for topnode.

How can I acheive this? Thanks.

Answer 1

When the contents of an element contain both character and element data it is called mixed content. In JAXB (JSR-222) this is mapped with the @XmlMixed annotation like:

class topnode {
    @XmlMixed
    String text;

    List<bottomnode> bottomnodeList;
}

The use of mixed content can be tricky, since you may get unexpected results due to text nodes used for formatting. For a more detailed explanation see the following answer to a similar question.

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/11099303/383861