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JAXB Moxy mixed spaces are lost

I had a problem while unmarshalling XML with mixed content. The space is lost. XML looks like this:

<text>rooms in <g>the</g> <g>Eldorado Hotel</g> on Broadway have a jacuzzi</text>

This is not tied to:

  • "rooms in" (with final space)
  • an object with a value of 'the'
  • object with the value 'Eldorado Hotel'
  • "There is a jacuzzi on Broadway" (with initial space).

Everything is fine, but I skip the space between the two tags. I need to save this space!

A simplified comparison will look something like this:

@XmlTransient
public abstract class AbstractText {

    private List words;

    @XmlMixed
    @XmlElementRefs({
        @XmlElementRef(type = WordGroup.class, required = false), // this is the <g> tag
        @XmlElementRef(type = Word.class, required = false)
    })
    public List getWords() {
        if (words == null) words = new ArrayList();
        return words;
    }

    public void setWords(List words) {
        this.words = words;
    }

}

@XmlRoot
public class Text extends AbstractText{

}

The mapping is performed not like in this case, but in the XML file (each class inheriting from AbstractText can have different children.

Real display:

<java-type name="dp.dc.exercise.model.Text">
    <java-attributes>
        <xml-element-refs java-attribute="words" xml-mixed="true">
            <xml-element-ref type="dp.dc.exercise.model.text.Word" required="false"/>
            <xml-element-ref type="dp.dc.exercise.model.text.WordGroup" required="false"/>
        </xml-element-refs>
    </java-attributes>
</java-type>

and works great anyway, but when there are two tags one by one.

Any help would be greatly appreciated :)

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