result of parsing CDATA () with xerces is empty

[Andreas V�lker]

Title: result of parsing CDATA (<!CDATA[]>) with xerces is empty

Hi,

if I parse and load an CDATA like <!CDATA[]> into a DOM the result (as a String) is empty. Is this normal?
If yes, is there a workround for this problem?

Thanks.

this is my code:

  xmlDoc = new XMLDocument();
  xmlDoc.fromString("<test><p0><![CDATA[xxx]]></p0><p1><![CDATA[]]></p1></test>");
  System.out.println(xmlDoc.toString());

and this is the result: <test><p0><![CDATA[xxx]]></p0><p1/></test>

the methods of my class XMLDocument are:

  public void fromString(String text) throws P2XMLException
  {
    DocumentBuilderFactory dbf;
    DocumentBuilder db;
   
    Transformer transformer;
    StreamResult result;
 
    try {
      dbf = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
      dbf.setNamespaceAware(true);
    
      dbf.setValidating(true);
     
      dbf.setAttribute("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/dynamic",
                      new Boolean(true));
     
      dbf.setAttribute("http://apache.org/xml/features/validation/schema",
                       new Boolean(true));
         
      db = dbf.newDocumentBuilder();
      db.setErrorHandler(new XMLDocument.XmlErrorHandler());
    
      doc = db.parse(new InputSource(new StringReader(text)));
      node = doc;    
    } catch (ParserConfigurationException pce) {
      throw new P2XMLException(pce.getMessage());
    } catch(IOException ioe) {
      throw new P2XMLException(ioe.getMessage());
    } catch(org.xml.sax.SAXException se) {
      throw new P2XMLException(se.getMessage()); 
    } 
  } // fromString

 
  public String toString()
  {
    StreamResult streamResult;
    Transformer transformer;
    String result = null;
   
    try {
      streamResult = new StreamResult(new StringWriter());
      transformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();     
      transformer.transform(new DOMSource(node), streamResult);
      result = streamResult.getWriter().toString();
      result =  com.apag.p2plus.p2core.Text.replace(result, "encoding=\"UTF-8\"", "", false);
      result =  com.apag.p2plus.p2core.Text.replace(result, "<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>", "", false);
      return(result);    
    } catch (TransformerException tce) {
      return(tce.getMessage());
    }
  } // toString