title: Gson's .toJson method replaces < with \u003c
body: <p>I am trying to convert a Java object having values in one variable as a string of xml .</p>
  
  <pre><code>Eg: &lt;soapenvelope... &gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After using </p>
  
  <pre><code>String json = new Gson().toJson(testVO)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It replaces "&lt;" with \u003c. I want to avoid this as I will then display the data in jquery datatables which fails to recognize the string of xml and print some random values.</p>