Great article, and the next step is...

Back to:
www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2008/jw-02-springcomponents.html.

I wanted to say what a truly helpful article this is, since I haven't been able to find ANY other information anywhere on how to do this. I was trying to piece it together myself, but that was pretty slow sledding.

But (as is usual with these sort of posts :) there's a next step that I'm having trouble with. How do you handle child nodes? I thought this would be relatively easy and just sort of take care of itself, but it hasn't worked out that way.

So I have a node element defined in my XSD. One of the child elements is named children, which is a sequence of the same node type. This looks pretty straightforward when you configure it:

Where exactly would you handle those children? And how would you set them with the setChildren() method on the parent object? I'm not averse to wrapping the children in a element or something similar (or even a block, although that's kinda clunky).

I've been beating my head against the wall trying to figure this out for two days now! Any help would be greatly appreciated!