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

The simplest way, when using sun's Marshaller implementation is to provide your own implementation of the CharacterEscapeEncoder which does not escape anything.

    Marshaller m = jcb.createMarshaller();
m.setProperty(
    "com.sun.xml.bind.marshaller.CharacterEscapeHandler",
    new NullCharacterEscapeHandler());

With

public class NullCharacterEscapeHandler implements CharacterEscapeHandler {

    public NullCharacterEscapeHandler() {
        super();
    }


    public void escape(char[] ch, int start, int length, boolean isAttVal, Writer writer) throws IOException {
        writer.write( ch, start, length );
    }
}