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I'm marshalling an object that can have some field set to null. I'm using castor with a xml-mapping file for the configuration. The class I'm marshalling is like this: class Entity { private int id; private String name; private String description; // THIS CAN BE NULL /* ... getters and setters follow ... */ } ...and a mapping file like this: <mapping> <class name="Entity"> <field name="id" type="integer"/> <field name="name" type="string"/> <field name="description" type="string"/> </class> </mapping> What I'm getting at the moment if the field is null (simplified example): <entity> <id>123<

How do I change the Castor mapping <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE mapping PUBLIC "-//EXOLAB/Castor Mapping DTD Version 1.0//EN" "http://castor.org/mapping.dtd"> <mapping> <class name="java.util.ArrayList" auto-complete="true"> <map-to xml="ArrayList" /> </class> <class name="com.db.spgit.abstrack.ws.response.UserResponse"> <map-to xml="UserResponse" /> <field name="id" type="java.lang.String"> <bind-xml name="id" node="element" /> </field> <field name="deleted" type="boolean"> <bind-xml name="deleted" node="element" /> </field> <field name="name" type="java.lang.String"> <bind-xml name="name"

What is the difference between Castor XML and JAXB binding since both are binding java object to XML and vice versa. Updated : As using Castor I can do this Assume packageA.ClassA and packageB.ClassA have same attributes and class name just that they were located in different package. packageA.ClassA - > XML -> packageB.ClassA By using JAXB if I am doing this Marshall object packageA.ClassA to XML and from XML unmarshall into object packageB.ClassA I got Casting error. Please note that JAXB is an API, and there are multiple implementations available. Sun provides a reference implementation and

I have an XML similar to below, which needs to be sorted using the date field. <root> <Node1> <date></date> </Node1> <Node1> <date></date> </Node1> <Node1> <date></date> </Node1> <Node1> <date></date> </Node1> <Node2> <date></date> </Node2> <Node2> <date></date> </Node2> <Node2> <date></date> </Node2> <Node2> <date></date> </Node2> </root> I would like to sort the XML based on the date(say ascending order), irrespective of whether the date is under Node1 or Node2. Actually, in Java code I have two separate lists, one with Node1 objects and other with Node2 objects. I can sort the list in any

I have several XSDs that reuse the same entities. For example, both the XSDs for the ProductPurchaseRequest.xsd and ProductQuoteRequest.xsd both have a <product> tag in them to describe the product in question. For this reason I created a Product.xsd file to define the <product> tag and both ProductPurchaseRequest.xsd and ProductQuoteRequest.xsd import the Product.xsd with a `. I would like to use Castor to generate Java classes from theses XSDs, and for both of them to use the same class for representing the Product so that I could reuse the same logic for mapping them to our model's