JAXB - marshal object with XML string property

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?

Answer 1

You use the @XmlAnyElement for this. However, first you need to convert your XML string into a DOM structure, and inject that into your model, rather than the raw XML String.