Question

How can one ignore Unexpected element situation in JAXB ans still get all other kind of javax.xml.bind.UnmarshalException?

obj = unmler.unmarshal(new StringReader(xml)) 

Notice i still want to get the obj result of the xml parsing.

Answer 1

The solution.

In JAXB implementing ValidationEventHandler like so:

class CustomValidationEventHandler implements ValidationEventHandler{      public boolean handleEvent(ValidationEvent evt) {         System.out.println('Event Info: '+evt);         if(evt.getMessage().contains('Unexpected element'))             return true;         return false;     }  } 

Then

Unmarshaller u = ...;  u.setEventHandler(new CustomValidationEventHandler());  u.unmarshal(new StringReader(xml));