How to deal with JAXB ComplexType with MixedContent data?

Question

I got this XML structure:

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Answer 1

As you mentioned you need to add the mixed attribute to indicate that your type supports mixed content. Without this specified your XML content is invalid:

The generated TaxDescriptionType class will have the following property. Essentially this means that all of the non-attribute content will be stored in a List. This is necessary because you need a mechanism that indicates where the text nodes are wrt the element content.

@XmlElementRef(name = "ShortName", namespace = "http://www.example.org/schema", type = JAXBElement.class)
@XmlMixed
protected List content;

You will populate this list with instances of String (representing text nodes) and JAXBElement (representing element content).

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ALTERNATIVELY

Mixed content generally makes life more complicated than it needs to be. If possible I would recommend an alternate XML representation.

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