How to express XML with mixed content using Jackson XmlMapper

Question

I need write a Java program that will generate a XML with mixed content. It should more or less like this:

   <foo>
       <bar><a></a>Some text<b></b></bar>
    </foo>

I would like to use Jackson XML Mapper to serialize Java objects to XML but I don't know how to build an object equivalent to above XML.

Answer 1

Eventually I was able to generated expected XML using following Java record:

record foo(
        @JacksonXmlProperty
        Bar bar
){};

@JsonPropertyOrder({"a", "content", "b"})
record Bar(
        @JsonInclude
        @JacksonXmlProperty
        String a,
        @JacksonXmlText
        String content,
        @JsonInclude
        @JacksonXmlProperty
        String b
) {
};