JAXB - marshal java object with XML string field

Question

suppose i have an object with String property that has an XML string. like:

 class myObject {
    String xml;

    @XmlElement(name = "xml", type = String.class)
    public String getXml() {
        return xml;
    }

    public void setXml(String xml) {
        this.xml = xml;
    }
}

i set an XML String to this property - such as

 myObject.setXml("<xml>bbb</xml>");

now i want to marshal it using JAXB and i get:

<xml>&lt;xml&gt;bbb&lt;/xml&gt;</xml>

where i want to get

<xml>bbb</xml>

how can i do it?

EDIT: the problem is that String xml, stores a well formatted XML as a string. so I want this string to be marshaled without escaping the XML characters.

Answer 1

If you want to store an XML fragment as a String in your Java model, then you can use the @XmlAnyElement annotation with a DomHandler specified to achieve this.

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