Can I force JAXB not to convert " into ", for example, when marshalling to XML?

Question

I have an Object that is being marshalled to XML using JAXB. One element contains a String that includes quotes (\"). The resulting XML has " where t

Answer 1

I have just made my custom handler as a class like this:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

import com.sun.xml.bind.marshaller.CharacterEscapeHandler;

public class XmlCharacterHandler implements CharacterEscapeHandler {

    public void escape(char[] buf, int start, int len, boolean isAttValue,
            Writer out) throws IOException {
        StringWriter buffer = new StringWriter();

        for (int i = start; i < start + len; i++) {
            buffer.write(buf[i]);
        }

        String st = buffer.toString();

        if (!st.contains("CDATA")) {
            st = buffer.toString().replace("&", "&").replace("<", "<")
                .replace(">", ">").replace("'", "'")
                .replace("\"", """);

        }
        out.write(st);
        System.out.println(st);
    }

}

in the marshaller method simply call:

marshaller.setProperty(CharacterEscapeHandler.class.getName(),
                new XmlCharacterHandler());

it works fine.