Hello,

i'm facing a problem when loading a class hierarchy as XML with a dom4j-Session.

I have the following setup:

class A
class B extends A
class C extends A

B and C are mapped as joined-subclasses of A.

When i load a Collection that consists of B's and C's as XML the elements are all named <A>:

Even when i explicitly set the 'node'-attributes for the joined-subclasses the name of the XML-elements does not change.
The only thing that can be influenced by the 'node'-attribute is the name of the main-class' element (i.e. A -> mySuperclass) but then all B's and C's will again be of the same element.

Does somebody know if this behaviour is intended ?
I would expect that the 'node'-attribute in the mapping can be defined per concrete class and not only per class hierarchy.

Thanks

To be more exact:



This is the case when the collection is a property of another class (say X).
So, X holds a collections of B's and C's.

The XML shown above results when loading the X (or all X's).



When I directly load all A's



the resulting XML is as expected: