going from strings to parts

[Jackson, Douglas]

I have a String that represents a value that I want to assign to a Part. I had thought to use Axis to deserialize the String into a Java object and assign that java object to the Part.  I am able to get a Deserializer using Axis’s DeserializationContext, but it seems to be Sax based (I am using axis 1.1 right now).  I have not found a way to use something in Axis, give it a String, and get a Java object out.   My questions are: Is my approach wrong – should I be trying to go to DOM and assigning the element to the part? Can I just put the String in the part?  (I don’t think so, but…) Does anyone know of a way to take advantage of axis’s deserializers to produce an object?   In the one case I have been trying I am actually trying to assign a simple string to an “xsd:string”, so I am not sure how that would be converted to dom… This needs to be general purpose, and I want to take advantage of the server-config.wsdd file for type mappings etc.  Thus using axis seems attractive to me.  However, the DOM thing is attractive also, because I need to do some xpath stuff to pull data out of the Parts.   I did look for the code to convert to deserialize to DOM on axis-dev, but did not see it.  If someone could send me a link to that I would appreciate it.   -Doug.