how to marshall more than one pojo's in a single xml?

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Is it possible to marshall all pojo (of same type) in a single xml using o/x mappers? like I want to generate the following xml file

<xml>
<record1>
<id>1</id>
<name>abc</name>
</record1>
<record2>
<id>2</id>
<name>xyz</name>
</record2>
</xml>

here record1 and record 2 are same type of objects.Means I want to write first record1 object in xml file than record2 object in that same xml file.

What is a "single XML?" Consider editing your question to include an example of the desired input and output. — Matt Ball, Jun 09 '11 at 06:04
You could aggregate them into a parent class, and serialize that... — Merlyn Morgan-Graham, Jun 09 '11 at 06:05
@Merlyn: Its a very valid answer. So... why not post it as an answer. — Adeel Ansari, Jun 09 '11 at 06:10
@Adeel: Because I program in C#, not Java, and don't want to embarrass myself ;) — Merlyn Morgan-Graham, Jun 09 '11 at 06:14

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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As Merlyn Morgan-Graham said as a comment to your question, You can aggregate them into a separate class, and serialize that one.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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answered Jun 09 '11 at 06:18

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 09 '11 at 06:18

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How about composition. A Pojo class contains other pojo's objects as xml entity.

answered Jun 09 '11 at 06:18

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 09 '11 at 06:46

Spring documentation clearly says:

Within the field of O/X mapping, a marshaller is responsible for serializing an object (graph) to XML.

So the direct answer is no. We marshal one object to one xml document. If you need more then one instance in a single document, you'll have to implement some sort of wrapper class. A class containing a simple collection (a list or a set) which stores your marshallables and providing some get/add methods should be sufficient.

how to marshall more than one pojo's in a single xml?

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