Unmarshalling is the reverse process, building an object (i.e Java Object) from an XML representation(i.e schema).
Step 1:
Get the schema file which need to be unmarshalled.
For e.g In our case we have employees.xsd
Step 2:
Write a Java Program to unmarshall XMl representation to Object
Note : To run Java Program, castor-0.9.9.1.jar,xerces.jar and common-logging.jar in project build path.
Step 1:
Get the schema file which need to be unmarshalled.
For e.g In our case we have employees.xsd
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xsd:element name="age" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="dept" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="employee">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="name"/>
<xsd:element ref="age"/>
<xsd:element ref="dept"/>
<xsd:element ref="project"/>
</xsd:sequence>
<xsd:attribute name="id" type="xsd:string" use="optional"/>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
<xsd:element name="employees">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element maxOccurs="unbounded" minOccurs="1" ref="employee"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
<xsd:element name="fname" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="lname" type="xsd:string"/>
<xsd:element name="name">
<xsd:complexType>
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:element ref="fname"/>
<xsd:element ref="lname"/>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:element>
<xsd:element name="project" type="xsd:string"/>
</xsd:schema>
Step 2:
Write a Java Program to unmarshall XMl representation to Object
Note : To run Java Program, castor-0.9.9.1.jar,xerces.jar and common-logging.jar in project build path.
import org.exolab.castor.builder.SourceGenerator;
public class UnmarshallTest
{
public void unMarshallTest()
{
try
{
// instantiate the SourceGenerator
SourceGenerator srcGen = new SourceGenerator();
// call the generateSource method to generate the Object-Model from the
// the schema and put it in a package
srcGen.generateSource("employees.xsd", "com.ibm.employee");
System.out.println("Completed..");
}
catch(Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.toString());
}
}
public static void main(String[] args)
{
UnmarshallTest test = new UnmarshallTest();
test.unMarshallTest();
}
}