Customize names of generated JAXB classes

Question

I have a peculiar requirement. We have been using JAXB1.0 in our project to parse XMLs. External binding files were used to provide proper names for the generated JAXB classes. Now, I have an xml that looks something like this:
//sample xml. Original format is much bigger
<b>
<MasterTag>
<attr id="123">Value1</attr>
<attr id="736">Value2</attr>
<attr id="900">value3</attr>
</MasterTag>
</b>
There's a property file which has key value pairs for the attr id
Eg:
<b>
123=CompanyID
736=CompanyAddress
900=CompanyPinCode
</b>
Is it possible to generate JAXB classes names based on the attr id value? These values finally need to persisted in the db. JAXB is the preferred technology.
Any other ideas are also welcome. Thanks.

Answer 1

I might be misunderstanding your question, but if you control the single large schema, it would be simple to define the things that you want to treat specially as either individual elements or complexTypes inside the single schema file. Using psuedo-schema, say you have something like this now:
<xs:element name='Information'>
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element name='Header'>
          <!-- your definition here -->
      </xs:element>
      <xs:element name='Item' maxOccurs='unbounded'>
          <!-- your definition here -->
      </xs:element>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>You can change that to:
<xs:element name='Information'>
  <xs:complexType>
    <xs:sequence>
      <xs:element ref='Header'/>
      <xs:element name='Item' maxOccurs='unbounded'>
          <!-- your definition here -->
      </xs:element>
    </xs:sequence>
  </xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name='Header'>
  <!-- your definition here -->
</xs:element>That should produce distinct classes for your Information and Header elements. You similary can break out the Item and Trailer elements.