Question

I have an object which is the return value for a web service method. One of its properties contains an XML document. Ideally, I’d like to have JAX-B include that XML document verbatim in the web service response, rather than escaping everything or having to unmarshal it just to allow the webservice mapping to marshal it again immediately.

Can this be done via annotations or a custom binding definition?

EDIT:
The reason I want to do this is that the XML document is retrieved from an Oracle DB (column type XmlType), and I generally want to avoid unnecessary parsing/formatting steps in getting it out to the webservice client.

Answer 1

I think you’ll have to convert the XML string into a org.w3c.dom.Element object first, add that to your model, and annotate it with @XmlAnyElement. JAXB will then serialize that as verbatim XML (schema validation not withstanding).