[Simple-support] Simple - XML reference resolving

[Marc.Waldenberger <Mar...@gm...>]

Hi,

i hope this is the correct place to post my question. I tried to read
a small XML file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII"?>
<Football xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <Team>
    <Player MREF="Foo"/>
    <Player MREF="Bar"/>
  </Team>
  <DESCRIPTION>This is a game</DESCRIPTION>
  <Player MID="Foo">
    <Name>Lionel Messi</Name>
  </Player>
  <Player MID="Bar">
    <Name>John Lennon</Name>
  </Player>
</Football>

but i got an exception:
org.simpleframework.xml.strategy.CycleException: Invalid reference 'Foo' found
at org.simpleframework.xml.strategy.ReadGraph.readReference(ReadGraph.java:155)
at org.simpleframework.xml.strategy.ReadGraph.readInstance(ReadGraph.java:123)

so i tried this solution,
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13933314/simple-xml-reference-resolving
but then i get the following exception:

org.simpleframework.xml.core.ValueRequiredException: Unable to satisfy
@org.simpleframework.xml.Element(name=Name, type=void, data=false,
required=true) on field 'name' private java.lang.String
foo.Player.name for class foo.Player at line 4
at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.validate(Composite.java:644)
at org.simpleframework.xml.core.Composite.readElements(Composite.java:449)

This is just a small example, i have bigger XML files to parse, but
the problems are the same, and i can not change the XML files to have
the IDs before the Refs. I created a small test project on github, so
if somone want to try it out it is just a click away :D

https://github.com/Ohorf/SimpleXMLReferenceTest

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
  Marc