I want XML like this:

<simple>Foo</simple>

I can do this successfully via a JAXB class that looks like this:

@XmlRootElement(name="simple")
class Simple {
    @XmlValue
    public String contents;
}

But now I need to make the Simple class be a subclass of another class like so:

@XmlRootElement(name="simple")
class Simple extends OtherClass {
    @XmlValue
    public String contents;
}

That fails with @XmlValue is not allowed on a class that derives another class. I can't easily refactor the superclass away (because of the way we're using @XmlElementRef on a wrapper class). Is there a workaround that will let me annotate my subclass to generate that simple XML?

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