Question

I have a very large and complex XSD for a SOAP service which I do not control. There are several elements which always contain string data which are not typed. Typically these are very deeply-nested elements.

For example

...
  <xs:complexType>
      <xs:sequence>
          <xs:element name="foo"/>
          <xs:element name="bar"/>
      </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
...

Is there a way to tell JAXB to always bind untyped elements (such as foo and bar above) to java.lang.String?

I understand that I can call out these exceptions individually using an XPath query string, but is there a one liner for this?

Answer 1

In an external binding file an XPath expression like

//xs:element[not(@type)][not(xs:simpleType)][not(xs:complexType)]

would match any such element (assuming XJC has full XPath support rather than just a subset of the language).