Reading contents of tag with XStream

I think I may of "zoomed in" too much with my XStream work, but I'm trying to marshall an XML stream, which contains a variety of large complex objects, and each of these objects tends to have lots of tags such as :

<name type="string">My Name</name>
<speed type="dice">2d6</speed>

So I created a "TypedString" object, to wrap up the concept of a string with a type attribute, like so:

import com.thoughtworks.xstream.annotations.XStreamAsAttribute;
public class TypedString {
    @XStreamAsAttribute
    private String type;
    private String value;

    public TypedString(String type, String value) {
        this.type = type;
        this开发者_StackOverflow.value = value;
    }
    // getters omitted 
}

Now, I know this must be missing something - as how can I get the "value" variable set using the contents of the tag (e.g. for the first example shown above, type would be "string" and value would be "My Name").

I wrote a brief unit test for this :

public class TypedStringTest {
    private XStream xStream;

    @Before
    public void setUp() {
        xStream = new XStream();
        xStream.processAnnotations(TypedString.class);
        xStream.alias("name", TypedString.class);
    }

    @Test
    public void testBasicUnmarshalling() {
        TypedString typedString = (TypedString) xStream.fromXML("<name type=\"string\">Name</name>");
        assertEquals("string", typedString.getType());
        assertEquals("Name", typedString.getValue());
    }
}

Which fails on the second assertion.

Is there an annotation I need to add to the TypedString class to get it working ? Or have I really zoomed in too far here (e.g. should this all be done on annotations in the class containing these tags ?). The @XStreamAsAttribute annotation didn't look like it could be used from the parent tag - it needed to be defined on the object representing the tag in applied to, from what I could tell. Hence I made what is otherwise a glorified String, which I feel XStream should be marshalling without my implicit assistance.

In a nutshell, where have I got lost ?!

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@XStreamAlias("name")
@XStreamConverter(value=ToAttributedValueConverter.class, strings={"value"})
public class TypedString {
    private String type;
    private String value;
}

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@XStreamConverter(value=ToAttributedValueConverter.class, strings={"value"})
public class TypedString {
    @XStreamAsAttribute
    private String type;
    private String value;
}

It works for single line values.

If you have something like this the value will be some white spaces.

<name type="string">
    My Name
</name>

In this case value will be " ".