import com.thoughtworks.xstream.annotations.XStreamAlias;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.annotations.XStreamAsAttribute;

@XStreamAlias("book")
public class Book {

    // 別名注解，這個別名就是XML文檔中的元素名，Java的屬性名不一定要與別名一致
    @XStreamAlias("name")
    private String name;
    
    @XStreamAlias("author")
    private String author;
    
    // 屬性注解，此price就是book的屬性，在XML中顯示為：<book price="108">
    @XStreamAsAttribute()
    @XStreamAlias("price")
    private String price;

    省略get和set方法
}

import java.util.List;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.annotations.XStreamAlias;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.annotations.XStreamImplicit;

@XStreamAlias("books")
public class Books {

    // 隱式集合，加上這個注解可以去掉book集合最外面的<list></list>這樣的標記
    @XStreamImplicit
    private List<Book> list;

    省略get和set方法
}

import java.util.List;

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.XStream;
import com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.xml.DomDriver;

public class XStreamHandle {

    private static final String xmlString = "<books><book price=\"108\"><name>Java編程思想</name><author>Bruce Eckel</author></book><book price=\"52\"><name>Effective Java</name><author>Joshua Bloch</author></book><book price=\"118\"><name>Java 7入門經典</name><author>Ivor Horton</author></book></books>";

    public static String toXml(Object obj) {
        XStream xstream = new XStream(new DomDriver("utf8"));
        xstream.processAnnotations(obj.getClass()); // 識別obj類中的注解
        /*
         // 以壓縮的方式輸出XML
         StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
         xstream.marshal(obj, new CompactWriter(sw));
         return sw.toString();
         */
        // 以格式化的方式輸出XML
        return xstream.toXML(obj);
    }
    
    public static <T> T toBean(String xmlStr, Class<T> cls) {
        XStream xstream = new XStream(new DomDriver());
        xstream.processAnnotations(cls);
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        T t = (T) xstream.fromXML(xmlStr);
        return t;
    }
    
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Books books = toBean(xmlString, Books.class);
        List<Book> list = books.getList();
        for(Book book : list) {
            System.out.println("name=" + book.getName() + "\tauthor=" + book.getAuthor()
                    + "\tprice=" + book.getPrice());
        }
        System.out.println(toXml(books));
    }
}