JAXB - Overriding datatype of an element - jaxb

Question

I am using JAXB with the following customized binding :
<jaxb:bindings xmlns:jaxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb" version="2.0" xmlns:xjc="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/xjc" jaxb:extensionBindingPrefixes="xjc" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<jaxb:globalBindings typesafeEnumMaxMembers="2000">
<jaxb:serializable />
</jaxb:globalBindings>
<jaxb:bindings schemaLocation="test.xsd" node="/xs:schema//xs:complexType[#name='EN']//xs:element[#name='family']">
<jaxb:property>
<jaxb:baseType name="java.lang.String" />
</jaxb:property>
</jaxb:bindings>
</jaxb:bindings>
to handle this schema (test.xsd):
<xsd:schema xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" elementFormDefault="qualified">
<xsd:complexType name="EN" mixed="true">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="ANY">
<xsd:sequence>
<xsd:choice minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xsd:element name="family" type="en.family"/>
</xsd:choice>
</xsd:sequence>
</xsd:extension>
</xsd:complexContent>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="en.family" mixed="true">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:restriction base="ENXP">
</xsd:restriction>
</xsd:complexContent>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="ENXP" mixed="true">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="ST">
</xsd:extension>
</xsd:complexContent>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="ST" mixed="true">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:restriction base="ED">
</xsd:restriction>
</xsd:complexContent>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="ED" mixed="true">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="BIN">
</xsd:extension>
</xsd:complexContent>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="BIN" abstract="true" mixed="true">
<xsd:complexContent>
<xsd:extension base="ANY">
</xsd:extension>
</xsd:complexContent>
</xsd:complexType>
<xsd:complexType name="ANY" abstract="true">
<xsd:attribute name="nullFlavor" type="xsd:string" use="optional">
</xsd:attribute>
</xsd:complexType>
</xsd:schema>
And I experiencing this problem :
[ERROR] compiler was unable to honor this property customization. It is attached to a wrong place, or its inconsistent with other bindings.
line 6 of file://home/user/test/jaxbelem_binding.xml
[ERROR] (the above customization is attached to the following location in the schema)
line 7 of file://home/user/test/test.xsd
Failed to parse a schema.
What's wrong with my binding file?
It's yaling about jaxb:property, but when the latter is deleted, no overriding happens!
Any help will be really appreciated, thanks in advance folks!

Answer 1

I have had luck nesting the jxb:bindings node tag inside of the jxb:bindings schemaLocation tag like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII" ?>
<jxb:bindings version="2.0"
xmlns:xjc="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/xjc"
xmlns:jxb="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/jaxb/bindingschema_2_0.xsd"
>
<jxb:bindings schemaLocation="test.xsd">
<jxb:bindings node="//xs:element[#name='family']">
<jxb:property >
<jxb:baseType name="java.lang.String"></jxb:baseType>
</jxb:property>
</jxb:bindings>
</jxb:bindings>
</jxb:bindings>
also:
while your note xpath to 'family' works, it seems overly complicated. I updated it to one that works given your example xsd (as long as there is only one element with name='family' it will work)