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

First of all, thanks for sharing this answer. It was very useful. However, the code mentioned above has issues. It does not have @Override annotations, which are a must to use this piece of code. Here is the updated code that works:

    XStream xstream = new XStream(new StaxDriver()) {
          @Override
          protected MapperWrapper wrapMapper(MapperWrapper next) {
            return new MapperWrapper(next) {
              @Override
              public boolean shouldSerializeMember(Class definedIn,
                      String fieldName) {
                if (definedIn == Object.class) {
                  return false;
                }
                return super.shouldSerializeMember(definedIn, fieldName);
              }
            };
          }
        };