JAXB - Ignore element

Question

Is there any way to just ignore an element from Jaxb parsing? I have a large XML file, and if I could ignore one of the large, complex elements, then it would probably parse

Answer 1

JAXB will ignore any unmapped properties.

Implementation wise (atleast in EcliseLink JAXB (MOXy), which I lead). When we are processing the contents via a SAX parser (i.e. the input was a SAXSource) then we swap out our ContentHandler that is responsible for building objects to one that does no processing for that section (org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.unmapped.UnmappedContentHandler). When a we are using processing the contents via a StAX parser we just advance to the next mapped event.

If you do have a property that corresponds to that node you can annotate it with @XmlTransient to make it an unmapped property.