Escaping double quote is not working properly Jdom2

Question

I am writing a parser in Java where I am writing a string in XML dom. my problem is a String "test" should come as "test" but it is coming as "test"

Here is my code

Element elment1 = new Element("string");
elment1.addContent("test");

i get it in the xml like this

<string>"test"</string>

but i want to get it like this

<string>&quot;anytext&quot;</string>

i use this to creat the xml file

Document doc = new Document(root);
XMLOutputter xmlOutput = new XMLOutputter();
xmlOutput.output(doc,new FileWriter("path"))

Why? Quoting of "double quotation mark" is needed only in attribute values (and can be avoided by using single quotation marks, and vice versa) — forty-two, Dec 16 '19 at 20:35
@forty-two thanks for your answer, i tried to do that with single quotation but it did not work — Fadi, Dec 16 '19 at 23:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 17 '19 at 08:52

If you use a standard off-the-shelf serializer, it will not escape a double-quotation-mark " appearing in a text node as an entity reference; it will only escape things that actually need to be escaped.

I can't imagine why you would want this unnecessary escaping, but it you do, you will need to do the serialization yourself "by hand".

Escaping double quote is not working properly Jdom2

1 Answers1