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 checked the XML specification. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-references says "well-formed documents need not declare any of the following entities: amp, lt, gt, apos, quot. " so it appears that the XML parser used by the legacy system is not conformant.

(I know that it does not solve your problem, but it is at least nice to be able to say which component is broken).