Question

I am getting object of type org.w3c.dom.Document from a source (basically a parsed xml document – java object). I want to use this xml document object to create java objects using JAXB. How can I do that?

Answer 1

You can unmarshal directly from DOM objects, this includes a org.w3c.dom.Document:

• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/Unmarshaller.html#unmarshal%28org.w3c.dom.Node%29

If you need to specify the type of object you are unmarshalling, then you can wrap the DOM node in a javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource and use the following API:

• http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/xml/bind/Unmarshaller.html#unmarshal%28javax.xml.transform.Source,%20java.lang.Class%29