Problem with DOMWriter output for CDATA node

[MARobertson]

I'm having a problem where DOMWriter is not handling CDATA sections as I
expected. I've search through bugzilla, and not found anything like my
problem.

Here's whats happening.  First, I get a DOMDocument by parsing this xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII" standalone="no" ?>
<TestXML>
  <Test2>
    <![CDATA[Here's data that includes xml-like stuff( <, >, etc. )]]>
  </Test2>
</TestXML>

Then, I get a DOMWriter object, and call writeNode, passing in the
DOMDocument from the parser. Here is the xml I get from that:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="US-ASCII" standalone="no" ?>
<TestXML>
  <Test2>
    <![CDATA[Here's data that includes xml-like stuff( &lt;, >, etc. )]]>
  </Test2>
</TestXML>

My problem is that the left angle bracket was changed to "&lt;", which
would be fine, if it wasn't in a CDATA section.  Note that the right angle
bracket came though unchanged.

Here's the code I used to call DOMWriter::writeNode:
void XMLDocument::getXML( char *&xml,
                          const char *encoding,
                          bool readable )
{
  DOMImplementationLS *impl =
    DOMImplementationRegistry::getDOMImplementation( LS );
  DOMWriter *writer = impl->createDOMWriter();
  // force pretty print:
  if (writer->canSetFeature( XMLUni::fgDOMWRTFormatPrettyPrint, true ) )
  {
    writer->setFeature( XMLUni::fgDOMWRTFormatPrettyPrint, true );
  }
  // Set the encoding to US-ASCII for now
  writer->setEncoding( XMLUni::fgUSASCIIEncodingString );
  // create a format target to recieve the resulting XML string
  MemBufFormatTarget *target = new MemBufFormatTarget;
  // serialize the DOM
  writer->writeNode( target, *mDoc );
  // make a copy of the result
  xml = XMLString::replicate( ( const char * )target->getRawBuffer() );
}

I'm using Xerces-C++ 2.1, with the binaries downloaded from the Apache
site.  My code was compiled with MS VC++ 6.0.

I'm pretty new at this, and expect that I've just misunderstood something.

Any help is appreciated!

Marc Robertson
Staff Consultant
AWD Development
DST Systems, Inc.


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