Showing posts with label Mapping Bad XML. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mapping Bad XML. Show all posts

June 21, 2013

Mapping Bad XML - Enumerated Collection Elements

In a previous post I introduced EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy)'s @XmlVariableNode extension.  In this post I'll demonstrate how @XmlVariableNode could be leveraged to handle an interesting question I came across on Stack Overflow.  In that question instead of a collection being represented with an element that appeared multiple times, the element name contained the index.  While I would never recommend structuring your XML document this way sometimes you encounter it and need to be able to map it.