"kabir.khan(a)jboss.com" wrote : | I think the simple cases can be rewritten using Element for the nested data/transaction-attribute elements? They only map onto name/value pairs - the name of the tag being the name, and the content being the value. | | The SecurityClassMetaDataLoader needs replacing with something else, but it should be able to parse the style of xml shown. I don't see any other way at the moment than being able to take Element? You can get JBossXB/JAXB to pass you the element. That's how we do the old InvokerProxyBindings in EJB2, but then you have to parse it (again) yourself. http://viewvc.jboss.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/jbossas/projects/metadata/trun... Of course this kind of usage of xml makes schema validation impossible so lots of typos by the user unfortunatley. ;-) View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4138809#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...