Question

I’m trying to deserialize an xml structure that looks like this:

<somecontainer>     <key1>Value1</key1>     <key1>Value2</key1>     <key2>Value3</key2>     <key2>Value4</key2> </somecontainer> 

I can basically choose what kind if element to deserialize to, maybe something like a List of Pair or something. The essence here is that the element names are the keys.

And no, I cannot change the xml structure. Anyone know how to do this with xstream ?

Answer 1

I have found that a custom serializer is needed for this case, no way around it.

Similarly

<node attr1='xxx'>value1</node> 

also needs a custom serializer.