binding to List

[Owais Zahid]

I have an xml like this :

<Zoo>
<Lion>
<Zebra>
....
</Zoo>

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And on my java project , i have an abstract class "Animal" and all the animals (like lion , zebra ) extends from it.

How can i unmarshal my xml to my class "Zoo" that contains a "List<Animal> animalList".

public class Zoo
{
.....
protected List<Animal> animalList;
}

public class Lion extends Animal  {
...
}

I hope, i explained my scenario clearly. Can someone please help me. So far i am unable to successfully unmarshal my xml file to List of Animals. Please help

-Owais

[William Brogden]

Why are you saying "unmarshal"?

We usually speak of parsing XML so it sounds like there are some additional requirements you are not describing.

Bill

[Owais Zahid]

Bill , i am using JAXB that is why i used the terminology of "un-marshalling".

If you can help me that what sort of Annotations (XML ELEMENT or INTERCEPTOR ) i need to write in order to map all the tags (like lion , zebra blah blah) to my list of animals.