XML Companion, The, Third Edition

Character data sections

Ranges of text, possibly containing reserved markup characters that are not to be interpreted as markup, can be enclosed in a character data section. A CDATASection node represents such a text range.

This interface extends the CharacterData interface, and adds no further methods. It is therefore simply used to identify character data nodes. When the value of a CDATASection node is written out to XML, the delimiter markup, '<![CDATA[' and '] ]>' is added.

Creating CDATA sections

A new CDATASection node can be created using the createCDATASection factory method defined in the Document interface:

// <![CDATA[press <ENTER>] ]>

CDATASection newCDATANode =
        myDoc.createCDATASection( "press <ENTER>" );