XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Name

CDATASection

Synopsis

The CDATASection interface contains the unparsed, unescaped data contained within CDATA blocks in an XML document. Although this interface inherits the Text interface, adjacent CDATASection blocks are not merged by the normalize( ) method of the Element interface.

Java example

// Open an XML source file
try {
    FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("phone_list.xml");
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer( );
    // read the XML source file into memory
    int ch;
    while ((ch = fis.read( )) != -1) {
        sb.append((char)ch);
    }
    
    // now, create a CDATASection object to contain it within
    // an element of our document using the CDATA facility
    CDATASection ndCDATA = doc.createCDATASection(sb.toString( ));
} catch (IOException e) {
    ...

CDATASection is a pure subclass of the Text interface and has no attributes or methods of its own. See the Text interface section of this chapter for a list of applicable methods for accessing character data in nodes of this type.