JAXB with legacy beans?

[Brian Mulholland]

Let's say I have a bean structure not generated from an XSD by JAXB, but which is FAIRLY close to the XML structure. Is there some annotation way I can direct JAXB how to unmarshal from XML to a library of legacy beans by using annotations?

(update)
A little more detail. Let's say I have an XML document that looks like:

<ROOT>
  <IGNOREME>
    <LISTITEM>
      <TEXT>Some Text</TEXT>
     </LISTITEM>
    <LISTITEM>
      <TEXT>Some More Text</TEXT>
     </LISTITEM>
    <LISTITEM>
      <TEXT>Some Other Text</TEXT>
     </LISTITEM>
  </IGNOREME>
</ROOT>

I want to bind it to an object that has a List<String> as a property. I can add annotations easily, but don't want to unwind the code that references the java object, and the XML is being produced by a third party. I am daydreaming of an annotation that allows me to tell JAXB that it should dump the text node from each listitem node into the List<String>. I have a variety of similar things, but am hoping that once I see how one is done, i can extrapolate to other situations.