Re: [xml-dev] cdata

also if your example is correct they have left off the trailing '>' on 
the cdata section.....

Joshua Allen wrote:

> Well, if they wanted you to be able to get at the text within the 
> CDATA node, they should have given you:
>
> <AccomodationName><![CDATA[HOTEL AC MALAGA PALACIO]]></AccomodationName>
>
> If they had, the text content of the node would be:
>
> “HOTEL AC MALAGA PALACIO”
>
> Instead, the double-escaped it so that the CDATA tag is part of the text:
>
> “<![CDATA[HOTEL AC MALAGA PALACIO]]>”
>
> Since you are getting an opaque text node which just happens to 
> contain some CDATA syntax, you will need to re-parse the text node if 
> you want to extract the text from within the CDATA brackets. To do 
> this, you would need to extract the string, then pass it back through 
> another XML parser instance which is capable of handling fragments. 
> You could also theoretically just extract the inner part using string 
> manipulation routines or RegExp.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> *From:* Diana Castillo [mailto:]
> *Sent:* Wednesday, June 09, 2004 10:00 AM
> *To:* 
> *Subject:* [xml-dev] cdata
>
> anyone know why my parser is not reading just the internal part of 
> this tag?
> Is the cdata in the correct format?
> <AccommodationName>&lt;![CDATA[HOTEL AC MALAGA
> PALACIO]]&gt;</AccommodationName>
>
> (I cannot change how the xml comes to me, they send it to me like that)
>
> Diana Castillo
> Global Reservas, S.L.
> C/Granvia 22 dcdo 4-dcha
> 28013 Madrid-Spain
> Tel : 00-34-913604039
> Fax : 00-34-915228673
> email:  <mailto:>
> Web : http://www.hotelkey.com
> http://www.destinia.com
>
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