Suppose I have an xml file that should look like this:
<list>
<item>
<id>123</id>
<name>someName</name>
</item>
<item>
<id>234</id>
<name>anotherName</name>
</item>
<item>
<id>345</id>
<name>aThirdName</name>
</item>
</list>
I parse it using XStream and the following classes:
class ListXML {
public List<ItemXML> list;
}
class ItemXML {
public String id;
public String name;
}
and the following code:
XStream xstream = new XStream(new DomDriver());
xstream.alias("list", ListXML.class);
xstream.alias("item", ItemXML.class);
xstream.addImplicitCollection(ListXML.class, "item");
ListXML result = (ListXML) xstream.fromXML(in);
So far so good. However, I now came across a case where I had the following xml as input:
<list>
<item>
<id>123</id>
<name>someName</name>
</item>
<item>
<id>234</id>
<aTagUnknownToMe>blabla</aTagUnknownToMe>
</item>
<item>
<id>345</id>
<name>aThirdName</name>
</item>
</list>
Is there a way to change my code to be "more robust", so I can get hold of the items with id 123 and 345 without knowing the "aTagUnknownToMe" tag?