<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<Records count="22321">
    <Metadata>
        <FieldDefinitions>
            <FieldDefinition id="4444" name="name" />
            <FieldDefinition id="5555" name="hair_color"  />
            <FieldDefinition id="6666" name="shoe_size" />
            <FieldDefinition id="7777" name="last_comment"/>
            <!-- around 100 more of these -->
        </FieldDefinitions>
    </Metadata>

    <!-- Several complex object we don't care about here -->

    <Record contentId="88484848475" >
        <Field id="4444" type="9">
            <Reference id="56765">Joe Bloggs</Reference>
        </Field>

        <Field id="5555" type="4">
            <ListValues>
                <ListValue id="290711" displayName="Red">Red</ListValue>
            </ListValues>
        </Field>

        <Field id="6666" type="4">
            <ListValues>
                <ListValue id="24325" displayName="10">10</ListValue>
            </ListValues>
        </Field>

        <Field id="7777" type="1">
            <P>long form text here with escaped XML here too
            don't need to process or derefernce the xml here,
            just need to get it as string in my pojo<P>
        </Field>
    </Record>
    <Record><!-- another record obj here with same fields --> </Record>
    <Record><!-- another record obj here with same fields--> </Record>
    <!-- thousands more records in the sameish format -->
</Records>

List<Record> unmarhsalledRecords = this.getRecordsFromXML(stringOfXmlShownAbove)

public class Record {
    private String name;
    private String hairColor;
    private String shoeSize;
    private String lastComment;
    //lots more fields
    //getters and setters for these fields
}