Yes, there used to be very buggy and extremely limited support for DOM4J as an EntityMode. It was removed because it was, well, buggy and extremely limited ;)
IMO the proper solution is something more like JAXB or other XML transformations. On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:34 PM Stephen Fikes <sfi...@redhat.com> wrote: > Is there a known / recommended solution for working with Hibernate > entities as XML? > > There used to be an XML based session (DOM4J) but this is no longer a part > of current Hibernate versions. > > Thanks! > Stephen > > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list > hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev > _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev