OpenSAML user discussion

["Michael Lausch" <>]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 9:45 PM, Brent Putman 
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 wrote:
> Right, we don't have XMLObject model for SOAP 1.2 like Scott said.  If
> you want a generic XMLObject that can be used to represent any arbitrary
> XML object model, you can use what we call the default provider, which
> is currently implemented by XSAny.  Nominally this is used for things
> that are declared explicitly as xs:anyType, but since it can hold any
> content model (for the ur-type xs:anyType), it can be used for things
> for which you don't otherwise have an XMLObject implementation.  The
> easiest way to get an unmarshaller for that is:
>
> unmarshallerFactory.getUnmarshaller(Configuration.getDefaultProviderQName());
>
>
> The XSAny instance you get when you unmarshall using that has the
> following API:
>
> http://www.opensaml.org/docs/xmltooling/1.0.1/apidocs/org/opensaml/xml/schema/XSAny.html
>
> As you can see, it is ElementExtensible- and AttributeExtensible- and
> also exposes the textContent, so that's how you gain access to the
> wrapped content model.

That did the trick. thx a lot for help.