The CDATA Class

The CDATA class shown in Example 15.13 is a subclass of Text with almost no functionality of its own. The only difference between CDATA and Text is that when an XMLOutputter serializes a CDATA object, it places its contents in a CDATA section rather than escaping reserved characters such as the less-than symbol with character or entity references.

Example 15.13. The JDOM CDATA Class
package org.jdom;

public class CDATA extends Text {

  protected CDATA() { }
  public    CDATA(String s) throws IllegalDataException;

  public Text setText(String s) throws IllegalDataException;
  public void append(String s) throws IllegalDataException;

  public String toString();

}

In my opinion, you really shouldn't use this class at all. The builder may (or ...

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