Dealing with poorly designed XML with JAXB

Question

I\'m currently working on replacing a legacy system with JAXB and I\'m running into problem with parsing the XML. The number one requirement of the system is that it must be

Answer 1

Write a meta-XSD in freemarker/velocity or the like. It can define the 256 types as subtypes of some parent type using a for loop. If you want to fully automate, you can write a maven plugin to generate the XSD from the freemarker and the run generate-sources on the result.