going from strings to parts

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:

1.	Is my approach wrong - should I be trying to go to DOM and
assigning the element to the part?
2.	Can I just put the String in the part?  (I don't think so,
but...)
3.	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.