Question

IMPORTANT: updated with solution!

See JAXB 2.x with MOXy (Eclipselink 2.1.2): persisting XHTML as element value

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I want to store XHTML as a node value of an XML via JAXB, e.g.

<p>This is a paragraph</p>

should get stored “as is” in an XML:

<root>
  <title>Title</title>
  <content>...the above XHTML snippet of paragraph...</content>
</root>

As I am using MOXy as JAXB Impl, I wanted to try this (version 2.1.2):

@XmlCDATA
public void setContent(String content) {
  this.content = content;
}

However, the content gets marshalled as escaped code and I can’t display it afterwards as XHTML snippet.

First of all: Where can I download the latest release of MOXy? It might be a bug in 2.1.2. The maven repo is somehow not available anymore:
http://download.eclipse.org/rt/eclipselink/maven.repo

The link was found at
http://wiki.eclipse.org/EclipseLink/Maven

Thanks

Answer 1

Update and solution regarding MOXy version 2.3.0:
I have tried out version 2.3.0 of EclipseLink now and it works!

Here is my data object that I persist:

import org.eclipse.persistence.oxm.annotations.XmlCDATA;

@XmlAccessorType(XmlAccessType.FIELD)
@XmlRootElement(name=DialogMessage.ROOTNAME, namespace="...")
public class DialogMessage {

    @XmlTransient
    public static final String ROOTNAME = "dialog";

    @XmlElement(name="content-html", namespace="...")
    @XmlCDATA
    private String contentHTML = null;

    public String getContentHTML() {
        return contentHTML;
    }

    public void setContentHTML(String contentHTML) {
        this.contentHTML = contentHTML;
    }

}

and the MOXy enabling config files:
package-info.java:

@javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlSchema( 
    namespace = "...", 
    xmlns = {@javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNs(prefix = "z", namespaceURI ="...")},  
    elementFormDefault = javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlNsForm.QUALIFIED) 
package com.yourdomain.packagenametodataclass; 

and the jaxb.properties:

javax.xml.bind.context.factory=org.eclipse.persistence.jaxb.JAXBContextFactory

When I write an instance of DialogMessage as XML to disk, the XML looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<z:dialog xmlns:z="...">
   <z:content-html><![CDATA[<p>sgd <strong>asdf</strong> asdf&#160;</p>
<p>asdf</p>]]></z:content-html>
</z:dialog>

Please note that “…” is just a replacement for whatever namespace URI you have.