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XJC should preserve XML entities in generated JavaDoc #1826

@Lukiz

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@Lukiz

I have xsd that that looks like this sample:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xs:schema attributeFormDefault="unqualified" elementFormDefault="qualified" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <xs:element name="Data">
        <xs:complexType>
            <xs:sequence>
                <xs:element name="Age" type="xs:unsignedByte" />
                <xs:element name="Under18" type="xs:boolean" >
                    <xs:annotation>
                        <xs:documentation>Resolve age &lt;&gt; 18</xs:documentation>
                    </xs:annotation>
                </xs:element>
            </xs:sequence>
        </xs:complexType>
    </xs:element>
</xs:schema>

After generating java code the entity for less-then sign &lt; is not preserved as escaped entity but replaced with proper character <.

    /**
     * Resolve age <> 18
     * 
     */
    @XmlElement(name = "Under18")
    protected boolean under18;

It leads to invalid HTML. Our project has check for valid JavaDoc and fails on malformed HTML.

I expect that XML entities like &amp; &lt; &gt; &apos; and &quot; are preserved in JavaDoc.

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