java - Appending XML element as a text node (escaped) -

i need take xml element , children, escape xml , append them text node in document. know approach stupid, api requires it.

could accomplish using 1 of many xml libraries java? tried using jaxp, code doesn't escape apostrophes , double quotes.

    …     string content = elementtostring(nodetoescape);     text text = document.createtextnode(content);     node n = document.getelementsbytagname("targetnode").item(0);     n.appendchild(text); }  string elementtostring(element element) {     document document = element.getownerdocument();     domimplementationls domimplls = (domimplementationls) document.getimplementation();     lsserializer serializer = domimplls.createlsserializer();     return serializer.writetostring(element); } 

resulting document fragment:

 <dataitem aggregate="none" name="order number"… 

you don't need escape quotes , apostrophes. according to: http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_syntax.asp characters "<" , "&" strictly illegal in xml