<xs:schema>
  <xs:element name="vacs">
    <xs:element name="vac" maxOccurs="unbounded">
      <xs:complexType>
        <xs:sequence>
            <xs:element name="coun" type="xs:string"/>
            <xs:element name="customername" type="xs:string"/>
            <xs:element name="customerinformation" type="xs:string" minOccurs="0"/>
            <xs:element name="affiliate" type="xs:string"/>
...................

<vacResponse>
  < new > 0 </ new >
  <updated> 0 </updated>
  <failed> 1 </failed>
  <errors>
    <error>
      <vacID> 1 </vacID>
      <msg>Database error </msg>
    </error>
  </errors>
</vacResponse>

 public   class  ServiceTest
{
     public   static   final  SimpleDateFormat TIME_FORMAT =  new 
            SimpleDateFormat("ddMMyyyy.HHmmssSSS");

     public   static   void  main(String[] args)  throws  Exception
    {
         try 
        {

            URL url =  new  URL("http://website/parseVac");
            URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
            HttpURLConnection httpConn = (HttpURLConnection) connection;
            Date curDate =  new  Date();

            String xml = readFileAsString("VacRequest03.xml");
             byte [] xmlBytes = xml.getBytes();

            // Set the appropriate HTTP parameters.
            httpConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length", String.valueOf(xmlBytes.length));
            httpConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=UTF-8");
            httpConn.setRequestMethod("POST");
            httpConn.setDoOutput(true);
            httpConn.setDoInput(true);

            OutputStream out = httpConn.getOutputStream();
            out.write(xmlBytes);
            out.close();
            InputStreamReader isr =  new  InputStreamReader(httpConn.getInputStream());
            BufferedReader in =  new  BufferedReader(isr);

            String inputLine;
            StringBuffer result =  new  StringBuffer();
            FileWriter temp =  new  FileWriter("VacResponse" + TIME_FORMAT.format(curDate) + ".xml");
             while  ((inputLine = in.readLine()) !=  null )
            {
                result.append(inputLine);
                temp.write(inputLine);
            }
            in.close();
            temp.close();
            //
            System.out.println(result.toString());
            System.out.println("Lengte: " + result.length());
        }
         catch  (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("Error: " + e);
        }
    }

     private   static  String readFileAsString( final  String fileName)
    {
        File file=  new  File(fileName);
        return   readFileAsString(file);
    }

     private   static  String readFileAsString( final  File anInputFile)
    {
         byte [] theReadStuff =  null ;
         try 
        {
             final  RandomAccessFile theRandomAccessFile =  new  RandomAccessFile(anInputFile, "rw"); // "rws", "rwd"
            theReadStuff =  new   byte [( int ) theRandomAccessFile.length()];
            theRandomAccessFile.readFully(theReadStuff,  0 , ( int ) theRandomAccessFile.length());
            theRandomAccessFile.close();
        }
         catch  (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
         return   new  String(theReadStuff);
    }


}