[jdom-interest] any way to suppress entity expansion?

[Michael Stacey]

We are trying to use a JDom in a system that needs to store the
actual content with entities intact.  ie:

this &amp; that are <b>cool</b>

Creating an Element with this string gives the expected:

this &amp;amp; that are &lt;b&gt;cool&lt;/b&gt;


Any way to suppress this translation?