Java XStream - Ignore tag that doesn't exist in XML

Question

I currently use a piece of XML like the following

    Frank Smith
    100023412
    1         


        

Answer 1

As it took me more than 15 minutes to find this answer, I thought I would post it.

XStream xstream = new XStream(new DomDriver()) {
            protected MapperWrapper wrapMapper(MapperWrapper next) {
                return new MapperWrapper(next) {
                    public boolean shouldSerializeMember(Class definedIn, String fieldName) {
                        try {
                            return definedIn != Object.class || realClass(fieldName) != null;
                        } catch(CannotResolveClassException cnrce) {
                            return false;
                        }
                    }
                };
            }
        };

This seems to skip xml items that are not in your objects.