Your XML document does not have the xs:date
and xs:dateTime
information in the appropriate format. If should be the following:
<request>
<head>
<title>Load data</title>
<startDate>2013-08-06</startDate>
<startTime>2013-08-07T05:51:37</startTime>
</head>
<request>
If you want to use an alternate format then you will need to leverage an XmlAdapter
.