Handling XML escape characters (e.g. quotes) using JAXB Marshaller

Question

I need to serialize an XML java object to a XML file using the JAXB Marshaller (JAXB version 2.2). Now in the xml object, I have a tag which contains String value such that:

"<"tagA>
**"<"YYYYY>done"<"/YYYYY>**
"<"/tagA>

Now as you can see that this string value again contains tags. I want this to be written in the same way in the xml file.

But JAXB Marshaller converts these values such as:

"&"lt;YYYYY"&"gt;"&"#xD;done ...& so on

I am not able to treat these escape characters separately using JAXB 2.2 Is it possible anyways?

Any help in this regard will be great..

Thanks in advance, Abhinav Mishra

Answer 1

There is one simpler way. First use custom escape sequence:

m.setProperty(CharacterEscapeHandler.class.getName(), new CharacterEscapeHandler() {
    @Override
    public void escape(char[] ch, int start, int length, boolean isAttVal, Writer out) throws IOException {
        out.write( ch, start, length ); 
    }
}); 

Then marshal it to a String like mentioned below

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
m.marshal(marshalObject, writer);

and then create a document object from the writer mentioned below

DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
InputSource is = new InputSource( new StringReader( writer.toString() ) );
Document doc = builder.parse( is );

escape characters issue will be resolved