Thread: why jaxb converts the elements in <choice> with one variable connected with Or?

Hi

This has been puzzling me, that is if I have a schema like the following,

<xs:element name="api">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
<xs:element ref="a minOccurs="1" />
<xs:element ref="b" minOccurs="1" />
<xs:element name="c" minOccurs="1" />

Why JAXB "xjc -p SomePackageName -d . ...." would generate a variable in Api.java such as AOrBOrC instead of A, B, and C ? Pls be aware that I put minOccurs to 1 to all a, b, and c . So it should have a place holder for each one of them. The problem with this is say my xml does have an instance/value of "a", "b" and "c", how do I retrieve the content of each one of them if it Only has ONE variable AOrBorC?

Thanks