Jackson Glossary: XmlFactory
Package: org.codehaus.jackson.xml
Jar: jackson-xc
Role
This is a specialized JsonFactory implementation used to produce XML-reading JsonParser and XML-writing JsonGenerator instances.
It was added in Jackson 1.7, as "mini-JAXB" feature.
Usage
Note: although resulting parsers and generators can be used directly, usually this is not done; rather, XmlMapper is used for data binding. Reason for this is that some details of conversion (between JSON-supporting API and physical XML format) are done above parser/generator layer by other components that XmlMapper constructs (compared to default ObjectMapper helper components).
This means that most of the time you do not have to instantiate XmlFactory directly.
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