Simple Xml Framework not behaving as expected

Question

I have this XML string:

String str = "<order id='1234'><orderlines><orderline id='567'>"+
"<article id='890'><description>Bananen</description><todo>45</todo>"+
"</article></orderline></orderlines></order>";

that I want to read in using simple-framework version 2.7.1. It works OK until the orderline class, which looks like this:

public class Orderline {
    @Attribute
    public int id;

    @Element
    public Article article;
}

I would expect the description and todo element to "go" into Article, but I get this error:

05-08 22:45:23.958: D/debug(14854): Element 'description' does not have a match in class nl.rd.svgtest.Orderline at line 1

I parse like this:

Serializer s = new Persister();
Order o = s.read(Order.class, str);

adding false to the s.read() call has no effect.

Answer 1

I found the answer, here on SO: Java : Simple XML not parsing the xml. Gives Exception

I had to add (inline=true) to my ElementList, as also shown in the tutorial.