Question

I have a XML format that I want to marshal using JAXB and it looks a bit odd to me. Here is the XML

<root>
    <parent>
         <child>1</child>
         <child>2</child>
         <child>10</child>
    </parent>
</root>

I want to get the List of child back. Usually if the parent has multiples different child, I would make parent a class, and use @XmlElement to refer to parent from root, but in this case parent only have 1 child, and it repeat multiple times, so it is a bit odd to me. The XML format can be changed.

Answer 1

You could do the following leveraging @XmlElementWrapper:

@XmlRootElement
public class Root {

    @XmlElementWrapper(name="parent")
    @XmlElement(name="child")
    private List<String> children;

}

For More Information

• http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/09/jaxb-collection-properties.html