[Simple-support] Deserialize a list of objects from one XML

[Timo R. <cr...@ol...>]

Hello,

> In answer to your question yes, you can stream many objects to one
> file. Also, simple should be much more memory efficient than XStream
> at just about everything.
>
> Niall

Niall, you wrote these lines on June 3rd (2008), but I could not find
another question/answer related to this topic.

Let's say, several objects, serialized to XML, are in one file (so
there is more than one xml root in one file). Is it possible to
deserialize it to a list of objects? I'm missing a method with a
signature like

  public < T > List< T > serializer.read(Class< ? extends T > type, String xml );

(assuming the types of the objects in the file are all the same.)

Is this possible out-of-the-box with simpleXML? Or do I have to
preprocess and parse the XML code and then call the serializer.read
method subsequently?


Thanks a lot


Best regards,
Timo