diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter.java
index dda603995a16..9bd7b6467210 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverter.java
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ public boolean canRead(Class<?> clazz, @Nullable MediaType mediaType) {
 
 	@Override
 	public boolean canWrite(Class<?> clazz, @Nullable MediaType mediaType) {
-		return (AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation(clazz, XmlRootElement.class) != null && canWrite(mediaType));
+		return ((JAXBElement.class.isAssignableFrom(clazz) || AnnotationUtils.findAnnotation(clazz, XmlRootElement.class) != null) && canWrite(mediaType));
 	}
 
 	@Override
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ protected Source processSource(Source source) {
 	@Override
 	protected void writeToResult(Object o, HttpHeaders headers, Result result) throws Exception {
 		try {
-			Class<?> clazz = ClassUtils.getUserClass(o);
+			Class<?> clazz = getMarshallerType(o);
 			Marshaller marshaller = createMarshaller(clazz);
 			setCharset(headers.getContentType(), marshaller);
 			marshaller.marshal(o, result);
@@ -205,6 +205,15 @@ protected void writeToResult(Object o, HttpHeaders headers, Result result) throw
 		}
 	}
 
+	private static Class<?> getMarshallerType(Object o) {
+		if (o instanceof JAXBElement<?> jaxbElement) {
+			return jaxbElement.getDeclaredType();
+		}
+		else {
+			return ClassUtils.getUserClass(o);
+		}
+	}
+
 	private void setCharset(@Nullable MediaType contentType, Marshaller marshaller) throws PropertyException {
 		if (contentType != null && contentType.getCharset() != null) {
 			marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_ENCODING, contentType.getCharset().name());
diff --git a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverterTests.java b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverterTests.java
index a54aeb779464..4c5c1e6cf870 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverterTests.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/test/java/org/springframework/http/converter/xml/Jaxb2RootElementHttpMessageConverterTests.java
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@
 
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 
+import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
+
+import jakarta.xml.bind.JAXBElement;
 import jakarta.xml.bind.Marshaller;
 import jakarta.xml.bind.Unmarshaller;
 import jakarta.xml.bind.annotation.XmlAttribute;
@@ -93,6 +96,8 @@ void canWrite() {
 				.as("Converter does not support writing @XmlRootElement subclass").isTrue();
 		assertThat(converter.canWrite(rootElementCglib.getClass(), null))
 				.as("Converter does not support writing @XmlRootElement subclass").isTrue();
+		assertThat(converter.canWrite(JAXBElement.class, null))
+				.as("Converter does not support writing JAXBElement").isTrue();
 		assertThat(converter.canWrite(Type.class, null))
 				.as("Converter supports writing @XmlType").isFalse();
 	}
@@ -186,6 +191,18 @@ void writeXmlRootElement() throws Exception {
 			.isSimilarTo("<rootElement><type s=\"Hello World\"/></rootElement>", ev);
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	void writeJaxbElementRootElement() throws Exception {
+		MockHttpOutputMessage outputMessage = new MockHttpOutputMessage();
+		JAXBElement jaxbElement = new JAXBElement<>(new QName("custom"), MyCustomElement.class, new MyCustomElement("field1", "field2"));
+		converter.write(jaxbElement, null, outputMessage);
+		assertThat(outputMessage.getHeaders().getContentType())
+				.as("Invalid content-type").isEqualTo(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML);
+		DifferenceEvaluator ev = chain(Default, downgradeDifferencesToEqual(XML_STANDALONE));
+		assertThat(XmlContent.of(outputMessage.getBodyAsString(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)))
+				.isSimilarTo("<custom><field1>field1</field1><field2>field2</field2></custom>", ev);
+	}
+
 	@Test
 	void writeXmlRootElementSubclass() throws Exception {
 		MockHttpOutputMessage outputMessage = new MockHttpOutputMessage();