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Asked: 2026-05-25T02:24:43+00:00

Does anyone know the solution for working with XML in Java that meets these

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Does anyone know the solution for working with XML in Java that meets these requirements?

  • Ability to fluently define XML schema (with no XSD)
  • Ability to work with XML data via Java standard types: if I say that this attribute of this tag is an integer, I’d like to be able to read and write it as int, without parsing and converting it to string manually.

The ideal solution is like this:

class MyXmlData { 
  @Bind("...xpath here...", Bind.Required)
  public Integer numberOfPersons; // required, integer

  @Bind("...xpath here...")
  public String title; // optional 
}

try { // throws, if required fields are not present
  MyXmlData data = MagicXml.read(MyXmlData.class, "1.xml");

  // at this point data.numberOfPersons is never null and
  // title may be null

  int myNumOfPersons = data.numberOfPersons; // here we go
}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Check out EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy). Our @XmlPath annotation is similar to the @Bind annotation that you are looking for:

    package blog.geocode;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;

import org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.annotations.XmlPath;

@XmlRootElement(name="kml")
@XmlType(propOrder={"country", "state", "city", "street", "postalCode"})
public class Address {

    @XmlPath("Response/Placemark/ns:AddressDetails/ns:Country/ns:AdministrativeArea/ns:SubAdministrativeArea/ns:Locality/ns:Thoroughfare/ns:ThoroughfareName/text()")
    private String street;

    @XmlPath("Response/Placemark/ns:AddressDetails/ns:Country/ns:AdministrativeArea/ns:SubAdministrativeArea/ns:Locality/ns:LocalityName/text()")
    private String city;

    @XmlPath("Response/Placemark/ns:AddressDetails/ns:Country/ns:AdministrativeArea/ns:AdministrativeAreaName/text()")
    private String state;

    @XmlPath("Response/Placemark/ns:AddressDetails/ns:Country/ns:CountryNameCode/text()")
    private String country;

    @XmlPath("Response/Placemark/ns:AddressDetails/ns:Country/ns:AdministrativeArea/ns:SubAdministrativeArea/ns:Locality/ns:PostalCode/ns:PostalCodeNumber/text()")
    private String postalCode;

}

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