JAXB unmarshalling with @XmlMixed Annotation

Question

I had a problem parsing an XML document. Here I found some good hints (" JAXB- @XmlMixed use for reading @XmlValue and @XmlElement ), but I was not able to accept this in my code.

First ... here is an xml example:

    <test>
      <content type="text">This is a content text</content>
      <content type="attributes">
        <attributeGroup name="group1">
          <attribute name="attr1">value1</attribute>
        </attributeGroup>
        <attributeGroup name="group2">
          <attribute name="attr2">value2</attribute>
          <attribute name="attr3">value3</attribute>
        </attributeGroup>
      </content>
    </test>

A content block can contain either text or several attribute groups with attributes (never both!). Unfortunately, this is a given xml structure, and I cannot change it.

I tried it with the following class structures, but there should be an error in my XmlMixed annotation. I don’t even know if I should use @XmlMixed here or if there is another better solution !?

    public static class Content {
      @XmlMixed
      private List<String> text;
      @XmlElementRef(name = "attributeGroup", type = AttributeGroup.class)
      private List<AttributeGroup> attributeGroups;
      // getter+setter...
    }

    public static class AttributeGroup {
      @XmlAttribute(name="name")
      private String name;
      @XmlElement(name="attribute", type=Attribute.class)
      private List<Attribute> attributes;
      // getter+setter...
    }

    public static class Attribute {
      @XmlAttribute(name="name")
      private String name;
      @XmlValue
      private String value;
      // getter+setter...
    }