[MarkLogic Dev General] Preserving CDATA in Mark Logic

Norman Walsh ndw at nwalsh.com
Tue Sep 2 08:13:42 PDT 2008


"Sakthikumar, Vasu" <Vasu.Sakthikumar at simonandschuster.com> writes:

> I tried inserting an XML document with CDATA, but the CDATA is not
> preserved.
>
> Here's the query I ran. 
>
> xdmp:document-insert('/TEST.XML', <a><![CDATA[test_cdata]]></a>)
>
> How do I preserve CDATA in the XML?

What's your motivation for preserving the CDATA markers? A CDATA section
is really just an escaping mechanism in the serialization.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
Principal Technologist
Mark Logic Corporation


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