JAXB use String as it is

Question

I use REST and i was wondering if i can tell jaxb to insert a string field \"as-it-is\" into the outgoing xml. Certainly i count unpack it before returning, but i would lik

Answer 1

Following bdoughan's answer did not work for me as I encountered errors during marshalling when the text contained the '& character (e.g. in URLs or when using HTML entities such as e.g. " ").

I was able to resolve this by changing the custom DomHandler's marshal method to

public Source marshal(String et, ValidationEventHandler veh) {
    Node node = new SimpleTextNode(et);
    return new DOMSource(node);
}

where SimpleTextNode implements the Node interface as follows:

class SimpleTextNode implements Node {
    
    String nodeValue = "";
    
    @Override    
    public SimpleTextNode(String nodeValue) {
        this.nodeValue = nodeValue;
    }
    
    @Override
    public short getNodeType() {
        return TEXT_NODE;
    }

    // the remaining methods of the Node interface are not needed during marshalling
    // you can just use the code template of your IDE...

    ...
}

PS: I would have loved to leave this as a comment to bdoughan's answer, but unfortunately I have way too little reputation :-(