Simple Java Xml to POJO mapping/binding?

Question

I'm trying to figure out the simplest way to map an xml file to to a plain old java object.

Note: That in my example the xml doesn't quite match up with my intended POJO.

///////// THE XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Animal>
  <standardName>
    <Name>Cat</Name>
  </standardName>
  <standardVersion>
    <VersionIdentifier>V02.00</VersionIdentifier>
  </standardVersion>
</Animal>


////// THE INTENDED POJO
class Animal
{
 private String name;
 private String versionIdentifier;
}

Regular JAXB (with annotations) won't work as the JAXM Element name annotations don't allow me to specifiy nested elements. (i.e. standardName/Name).

I've looked at Jibx but it seems overly complicated, and no full examples are provided for what I want to do.

Castro seems like it would be able to do what I want (using mapping files), but I wonder if there are any other possible solutions. (Possibly that would allow me to skip mapping files, and just allow me to specify everything in annotations).

Thanks

Answer 1

This article may help you... it only requires you to know xpath http://onjava.com/onjava/2007/09/07/schema-less-java-xml-data-binding-with-vtd-xml.html