Jersey/JAXB: parsing xml response that has inner tags/elements

[Sam Yim]

Building a Jersey Client to retrieve a response in XML.

Sample XML response from a WS:

    
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>
<Book isbn=\"1288098139nPnSF88520\" date=\"26 Oct 2010\" >
<Title>Some book title</Title>
<Summary><p>This book is blah blah blah...</p></Summary>
</Book>

Using Jersey and JAXB, I am able to get the XML response parsed into a class object (Book)

    
import java.io.Serializable;

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAccessorType;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlRootElement(name="Book")
@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
public class Book implements Serializable{

    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
    
    @XmlAttribute
    private String isbn;
        
    @XmlAttribute
    private String date;
    
    @XmlElement (name="Title")
    private String title;
    
    @XmlElement (name="Summary")
    private String summary;
}

The problem I am having is with the "inner elements".
The "summary" field of the Book object is null after it's decoded by JAXB.
If I remove the inner element "<p>", I am able to get a value for summary.
I would like JAXB to treat everything within <Summary></Summary> as a string value but how do I let it know to treat inner elements as a string value instead of an xml element?

[Sam Yim]

make sure the content is surrounded by <![CDATA[ {content} ]]>