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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