I have a service that needs to generate xml. Currently I am using jaxb

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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T17:53:45+00:00 2026-05-23T17:53:45+00:00

I have a service that needs to generate xml. Currently I am using jaxb and a Marshaller to create the xml using a StringWriter.

Here is the current output that I am getting.

<CompanyName>Bakery é &amp;</CompanyName>

While this may be fine for some webservices, I need to escape special unicode characters. The service that is comsuming my xml needs to have this:

<CompanyName>Bakery &#233; &amp;</CompanyName>

If I use StringEscapeUtils from commons-lang I end up with something like the follwing. This one does not work also:

<CompanyName>Bakery &amp;#233; &amp;amp;</CompanyName>

Are there some settings for the Marshaller that will allow me to encode these special characters as their decimal values?

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-23T17:53:46+00:00

Editorial Team

Yes, Marshaller.setProperty(jaxb.encoding,encoding) will set the encoding to use for the document. I’d guess that you want “US-ASCII”.

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