Thread: How To Retain Entity Reference Character While Reading XML

I have an xml file input.xml as below:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<parameter name="&quot;name&quot;">
	<summary>&quot;summary&quot;</summary>
	<username>leon</username>
</parameter>

And I use dom4j library to parse the xml file to add email address postfix "@sa.com" to useranme element value:

import org.dom4j.*;
import org.dom4j.io.*;
import java.io.*;
 
 
public class Main {
 
	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
	    SAXReader reader = new SAXReader();
	    InputStream in = new FileInputStream("input.xml");
	    Document doc = reader.read(in);
	    Element element = (Element) doc.selectSingleNode("/parameter/username");
	    element.setText(element.getText() + "@sa.com");
 
	   StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
	   writer.write(doc.asXML());
 
	   System.out.println("Converted Xml is:\n" + writer.toString());
	}
 
}

After running the code, I get below result:

Converted Xml is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<parameter name="&quot;name&quot;">
	<summary>"summary"</summary>
	<username>leon@sa.com</username>
</parameter>

From the result, you can see the summary element value changes from
<summary>&quot;summary&quot;</summary>
to
<summary>"summary"</summary>
But the name attribute value which contains entity reference character doesn't change.

Why is it working like this? If I want to retain the original summary element value <summary>&quot;summary&quot;</summary>, how should I achieve that?