Javascript to add cdata section on the fly?

Question

I\'m having trouble with special characters that exist in an xml node attribute. To combat this, I\'m trying to render the attributes as child nodes and, where necessary, using

Answer 1

I had the same issue. i was trying to append CDATA to xml nodes, so i thought its as easy as adding like so:

valueNode[0].text = "";
//valueNode[0] represents ""

This does not work because the whole thing will get interpreted as text therefore <(less than) and > (great than) will be replaced automatically.

what you need to do is use createCDATASection by doing the following:

var tmpCdata = $xmlDoc[0].createCDATASection(escape("muzi test 002"));
//i'm also escaping special charactures as well
valueNode[0].appendChild(tmpCdata);

results will be:

Brettz9 (in previous answer) explains how to do this but quite complex, therefore i just wanted to add my solution which is much simpler.

thanks,