How to get jaxb to Ignore certain data during unmarshalling

Question

I have a xml structure \"Filter\" that get unmarshalled into in a java class called \"Filter\".

The XML state looks roughly like:

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Answer 1

How about the annotation of using "@XmlAnyElement"? You can get the instance of org.w3c.dom.Element. The text data should be able to be obtained by operating this instance.

class PropertyType {
    private String propertyName;
    // private String propertyValue; // comment out
    @XmlAnyElement(lax=true)
    private List propertyValue; // Adding this
}

exsample of to get text data.

// It is assumed that the child node is one. 
org.w3c.dom.Node nd = propertyValue.get(0).getFirstChild();
while(true) {
    if (nd.hasChildNodes()) {
        nd = nd.getFirstChild();
    } else {
        System.out.println(nd.getNodeValue()); // this is text data
        break;
    }
}