Hi,
Take a look at the XmlCursor interface, with it you have low level access to the xml representation, you can create/modify instances that don't have a schema definition. Renaming elements is not possible, but in your case, you can create a new doc with one element AAA and than copy the contents of your original employee element, ending up with the document you're looking for. Cezar _____ From: sol myr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [xmlbeans] Dynamically renaming an element in XmlObject? Hi, Given some XmlObject, is it possible to dynamically rename its root XML element? Details: 1) I have and XSD with ComplexType: <complexType name="Employee"> <element name="salary" type="string"/> </<complexType> 2) I need to create an XmlObjects, but dynamically rename its root XML tag. I wish I could just write: XmlObject e1=Employee.Factory.newInstance(); e.setSalary("1000"); e.setRootXmlTag("AAA"); // Wishful thinking - not a real code // Now e.xmlText() should be: <AAA><salary>1000</salary></AAA> 3) I know that if the xml tag name (<AAA>) is known in advance, I can declare an XSD Element: <element name="AAA" type="EmployeeType"/> And XmlBeans will easily generate corresponding XmlObjects, with <AAA> root. 4) But what if the xml tag name is totally dynamic (e.g. extracted at runtime from a user's request)? Is there any way for me to control the XML tag name? Thanks very much.
