standalone value does not appear in xml generated by moxy - jaxb

Question

I have a xml file generated using moxy implementation of jaxb. However standalone value does not appear in the xml document.

Answer 1

Note: I'm the EclipseLink JAXB (MOXy) lead and a member of the JAXB (JSR-222) expert group.

The standalone attribute is seldom used, and is only relevant if you are using a DTD. Since JAXB (JSR-222) is primarily used with XML Schema it doesn't apply. We chose not to output that attribute in the MOXy implemenation of JAXB (JSR-222).

Other XML technologies chose not to support the standalone attribute as well. For example I am not aware of a way to output a standalone value using a StAX parser.

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• http://www.xmlplease.com/xml/xmlquotations/standalone