Trouble Parsing XML with Mixed Content in Java using JAXB - Unexpected Empty Elements
I'm learning this framework and I've encountered a strange issue with I'm working on a personal project and I'm currently working on a Java application where I'm using JAXB to parse an XML file that contains mixed content... The XML structure has both text and child elements, but when I attempt to marshal it into my Java object, I'm encountering unexpected empty elements. For example, given the following XML: ```xml <root> <item> Some text here <subitem>Child text</subitem> </item> </root> ``` My corresponding Java class looks like this: ```java @XmlRootElement(name = "root") public class Root { @XmlElement(name = "item") private List<Item> items; } public class Item { @XmlMixed private List<Object> mixedContent; @XmlElement(name = "subitem") private String subitem; } ``` When I try to parse this XML, the `mixedContent` list ends up containing empty strings instead of the text nodes. I have confirmed that the XML is well-formed and valid. My JAXB version is 2.3.1, and I'm using the following code to unmarshal the XML: ```java JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(Root.class); Unmarshaller unmarshaller = context.createUnmarshaller(); Root root = (Root) unmarshaller.unmarshal(new File("path/to/file.xml")); ``` Despite trying to adjust the annotations and ensuring that mixed content is correctly set up, the `mixedContent` list still does not capture the text content properly. I've also tried using `@XmlMixed` on the `items` property instead, but that doesn't yield the desired result either. Is there a specific configuration or best practice that I might be missing to correctly handle mixed content in JAXB? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated! For context: I'm using Java on Ubuntu. How would you solve this? Any examples would be super helpful. Any feedback is welcome!