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 the " existed.

Even though this is normally preferred, I need my output to match a legacy system. How do I force JAXB to NOT convert the HTML entities?

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Thank you for the replies. However, I never see the handler escape() called. Can you take a look and see what I'm doing wrong? Thanks!

package org.dc.model;  import java.io.IOException; import java.io.Writer;  import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext; import javax.xml.bind.JAXBException; import javax.xml.bind.Marshaller;  import org.dc.generated.Shiporder;  import com.sun.xml.internal.bind.marshaller.CharacterEscapeHandler;  public class PleaseWork {     public void prettyPlease() throws JAXBException {         Shiporder shipOrder = new Shiporder();         shipOrder.setOrderid("Order's ID");         shipOrder.setOrderperson("The woman said, \"How ya doin & stuff?\"");          JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance("org.dc.generated");         Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller();         marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE);         marshaller.setProperty(CharacterEscapeHandler.class.getName(),                 new CharacterEscapeHandler() {                     @Override                     public void escape(char[] ch, int start, int length,                             boolean isAttVal, Writer out) throws IOException {                         out.write("Called escape for characters = " + ch.toString());                     }                 });         marshaller.marshal(shipOrder, System.out);     }      public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {         new PleaseWork().prettyPlease();     } } 

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The output is this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?> <shiporder orderid="Order's ID">     <orderperson>The woman said, &quot;How ya doin &amp; stuff?&quot;</orderperson> </shiporder> 

and as you can see, the callback is never displayed. (Once I get the callback being called, I'll worry about having it actually do what I want.)

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Answer 1

Solution my teammate found:

PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(new FileWriter(xmlFile)); DataWriter dataWriter = new DataWriter(printWriter, "UTF-8", DumbEscapeHandler.theInstance); marshaller.marshal(request, dataWriter); 

Instead of passing the xmlFile to marshal(), pass the DataWriter which knows both the encoding and an appropriate escape handler, if any.

Note: Since DataWriter and DumbEscapeHandler are both within the com.sun.xml.internal.bind.marshaller package, you must bootstrap javac.