Question

I want to bind a XML content as a String to the field.
Here is how my xml seems like:

<sample>
    <content>
         <p>here is content <b>with bold</b></p>
    </content>
</sample>

which should be bound to the following domain object:

@Entity
@Table(name="news_table")
@XmlRootElement
class Sample {
     @XmlElement(name="content")
     @Column(name="news_content")
     private String content; 
}

After unmarshalling, i want to bind the content starts with <p> as String type in order to persist formatted text with HTML tags, so that:

System.out.println(sample.getContent()); 

must give the following out:

> "<p>here is content <b>with bold</b></p>"

With @XmlElement annotation i get only empty string “” back from binding operation, since the JAXB recognize the element starts with “<p>” as Object to be bound according to my understanding.

Any suggestion ?

Answer 1

Try using @XmlAnyElement annotation with a custom DomHandler. You can find an example here.