Okay, I see that Nabble has rendered the entity references as the actual
characters, so my problem is not properly illustrated just reading this
forum. I think you know what I mean, though... :)

Jeff


jas_nabble wrote:
> 
> Sadly, this does not work. I still get the '<' characters escaped as &lt;. 
> I updated the response object:
> 
> @XmlRootElement(name = "someResponse", namespace =
> "http://mynamespace.com";)
> @XmlType(name = "SomeResponse")
> public class SomeResponse {
>       
>       @XmlAttribute(name = "my-attr")
>       public String myAttr = "myAttryValue";
>       
>       @XmlAnyElement
>       public JAXBElement legacyXmlElement = new JAXBElement(
>                       new QName("http://mynamespace.com";, "legacyXML"),
>                       java.lang.String.class,
>                       "<x a=\"hello\"><y><z>data</z></y></x>");
> }
> 
> And the response is:
> 
> jas% curl http://localhost:8080/cxf1/rest/partner/forumTest
> <ns3:SomeResponse xmlns:ns3="http://ips.company.com/partner";
> xmlns:ns2="http://mynamespace.com"; xmlns="http://ips.company.com/types";
> my-attr="myAttryValue"><ns2:legacyXML>&lt;x
> a="hello">&lt;y>&lt;z>data&lt;/z>&lt;/y>&lt;/x></ns2:legacyXML></ns3:SomeResponse>
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> jas_nabble wrote:
>> 
>> Hello Benson:
>> 
>> @XmlAnyElement came up in the JAXB forum as well,  but I don't understand
>> how it applies to my problem. For one thing, the javadoc for
>> XmlAnyElement only discusses unmarshaling, so I'm not sure it applies to
>> marshaling as well. Even if it does, I don't want to parse the legacy XML
>> and hand over an Element.
>> 
>> However, would it be possible to use JAXBElement and set is value to the
>> XML String? Will that then get marshaled and not be escaped?  I'll have
>> to try that.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Jeff
>> 
>> 
>> Benson Margulies-4 wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:15 -0800, jas_nabble wrote:
>>>> Hello:
>>>> 
>>>> I'm so far successfully making use of CXF 2.0.3 using JAXB 2.0.
>>>> However, a
>>>> problem I have to resolve pertains to returning as part of a response,
>>>> existing XML that is already in the for of java.lang.String. This
>>>> content is
>>>> coming from legacy code accessing database CLOBs. They can be pretty
>>>> large,
>>>> and they don't change. There are lots of them (~100K). I would rather
>>>> not
>>>> parse them into an object graph that could be marshaled by JAXB, or
>>>> cache
>>>> those graphs in memory etc. I did see the email thread "Return direct
>>>> XML",
>>>> but that seems to involve creating a DOM.
>>> 
>>> Try looking into the @XmlAnyElement.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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