Jaxb generated class used JAXBElement instead of specified type

Question

This question has been asked in various guises - but I feel there is still room to catalogue this further.

I have an xsd with two element definitions

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Answer 1

If nillable="true" together with minOccurs="0" it is impossible to represent the values with just a String. What would null mean? Does it mean that it was null, or that it occurred 0 times? But I guess that is somewhat moot when it comes to just a String.

Compare with empty list. A null list is certainly different to an empty one.