Remove 'standalone=“yes”' from generated X

Question

Do you know of a JAXB setting to prevent standalone="yes" from being generated in the resulting XML?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

Answer 1

If you make document dependent on DOCTYPE (e.g. use named entities) then it will stop being standalone, thus standalone="yes" won't be allowed in XML declaration.

However standalone XML can be used anywhere, while non-standalone is problematic for XML parsers that don't load externals.

I don't see how this declaration could be a problem, other than for interoperability with software that doesn't support XML, but some horrible regex soup.

Answer 2

jaxbMarshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FRAGMENT, Boolean.TRUE);
jaxbMarshaller.setProperty("com.sun.xml.internal.bind.xmlHeaders", "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"no\"?>");

This worked for me with JDK1.7. standalone=\"no\" can be removed to get only rest of the xml part

Answer 3

If you are using only the default javax.xml package, you could set the JAXB_FRAGMENT option of the marshaller to 'true' (this omits the default xml processing instruction) and use the writeProcessingInstruction method of the XMLStreamWriter to insert your own:

xmlStreamWriter.writeProcessingInstruction("xml", "version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"");
jaxbMarshaller.setProperty( Marshaller.JAXB_FRAGMENT, Boolean.TRUE);
jaxbMarshaller.marshal(object, xmlStreamWriter);
xmlStreamWriter.writeEndDocument();