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 would advise against using CharacterEscapeHandler for the reasons mentioned above (it's an internal class). Instead you can use Woodstox and supply your own EscapingWriterFactory to a XMLStreamWriter. Something like:

XMLOutputFactory2 xmlOutputFactory = (XMLOutputFactory2)XMLOutputFactory.newFactory();
xmlOutputFactory.setProperty(XMLOutputFactory2.P_TEXT_ESCAPER, new EscapingWriterFactory() {

    @Override
    public Writer createEscapingWriterFor(Writer w, String enc) {
        return new EscapingWriter(w);
    }

    @Override
    public Writer createEscapingWriterFor(OutputStream out, String enc) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
        return new EscapingWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(out, enc));
    }

});

marshaller.marshal(model, xmlOutputFactory.createXMLStreamWriter(out);

An example of how to write an EscapingWriter can be seen in CharacterEscapingTest.