Using Jackson to parse XML with repeated element

I am looking for a simple way to parse an XML structure with a repeated element using Jackson. Here is a simplified example:

<root>
   <a>
       <x>
           <b>some content</b>
           <c>some content</c>
       </x>
       <x>
           <b>some content</b>
           <c>some content</c>
       </x>    
       ...
       <x>
           <b>some content</b>
           <c>some content</c>
       </x>
   </a>

   ... some other content ...
</root>

I would like to collect all the x elements in a list or array The problem is that when using something like:

XmlMapper().readTree(xml).get("a").fields()

the result contains only the last instance of x so it looks like some map key gets overwritten. There is a solution using JsonParser
e.g.: XmlMapper().createParser(xml) but it's a bit icky.

Is there a better way?

Edit

The way I read the "Known Limitations" section in the README , XML seems to be a second class citizen in Jackson. I accept @galuszkak 's answer as it is what it is , but to my mind when a developer invokes XmlMapper().readTree(xml) they do not expect XML processing to be shoehorned into JSON processing model with the limitations that come with that approach.

The problem mentioned here is described in this Github issue:
https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson-dataformat-xml/issues/187

Basically what is happening is that Jackson is translating XML tree structure in JsonNode data model and this will not work as it's not supported.

There is 2 options described in that Github issue:

• Fully transform this XML to JSON (answer from @cawena on Github)
• Or if you know your data structure to just use answer from p0sitron which is:

Code:

List<List<JsonNode>> elA = xmlMapper.readValue(xml, new TypeReference<List<List<JsonNode>>>() { });
assertEquals(3, elA.get(0).size());