how to write a CDATA node using libxml2?

Question

I\'m using libxml2 to read/write xml files. Now I\'m trying to write a CDATA node.

Here is what I tried:

nodePtr = xmlNewChild( parentPtr, NULL, \"f         


        

Answer 1

Figured it out. The trick is in knowing that CDATA text content is actually a child and not a part of the current node, and the critical API to call is xmlNewCDataBlock(). Using the same example as above:

nodePtr = xmlNewChild( parentPtr, NULL, "foo", NULL );
cdataPtr = xmlNewCDataBlock( doc, "Testing 1 < 2", 13 );
xmlAddChild( nodePtr, cdataPtr );

This will produce the following xml: