In EclipseLink MOXy (I'm the tech lead) we have a feature called Dynamic JAXB, that lets you bootstrap from an XML schema and use generic objects. You might find this approach useful.
I know it Is doable. One student in my lab did almost the same thing on a different subject. Though, you will have to play with classloader to be able to load dynamically the classes you've jest created.
Once that is done, you can parse the XML using the classloader that includes the new classes.
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