XML binding with the use of JAXB and Spring-MVC

annotations, java, jaxb, spring-mvc, xsd

Solution

Below is an example of how you could map this use case:

package-info

I would use the package level `@XmlSchema` annotation to specify the namespace qualification. Specify the `namespace` to be your target namespace (`"http://www.../ckp"`). You want this namespace applied to all XML elements so specify `elementFormDefault=XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED`. The use `xmlns` to asssociate prefixes with your namespace URIs.

@XmlSchema(
    namespace="http://www.../ckp",
    elementFormDefault=XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED,
    xmlns={
        @XmlNs(prefix="", namespaceURI="http://www.../ckp"),
        @XmlNs(prefix="atom", namespaceURI="http://www.w3.org/2005/atom"),
    }
)
package forum10388261;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;

Author

Below is what your `Author` class would look like. I have removed the unnecessary annotations (annotations that were equivalent to the default mapping).

package forum10388261;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.*;

@XmlRootElement
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Author {

    @XmlAttribute
    private String author;
    private String name;
    private String address;
    private String affiliation;
    private String email;

    public String getAuthor() {
        return author;
    }

    public void setAuthor(String author) {
        this.author = author;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public void setName(String name) {
        this.name = name;
    }

    public String getAddress() {
        return address;
    }

    public void setAddress(String address) {
        this.address = address;
    }

    public String getAffiliation() {
        return affiliation;
    }

    public void setAffiliation(String affiliation) {
        this.affiliation = affiliation;
    }

    public String getEmail() {
        return email;
    }

    public void setEmail(String email) {
        this.email = email;
    }

}

Demo

package forum10388261;

import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.bind.*;

public class Demo {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Author.class);

        Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jc.createUnmarshaller();
        File xml = new File("src/forum10388261/input.xml");
        Author author = (Author) unmarshaller.unmarshal(xml);

        Marshaller marshaller = jc.createMarshaller();
        marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, true);
        marshaller.marshal(author, System.out);
    }

}

Output

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<author xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/atom" xmlns="http://www.../ckp">
    <name>S. Crocker</name>
    <address>None</address>
    <affiliation></affiliation>
    <email>None</email>
</author>

For More Information

- http://blog.bdoughan.com/2010/08/jaxb-namespaces.html

- http://blog.bdoughan.com/2011/11/jaxb-and-namespace-prefixes.html

Problem

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