Creating a CData node with ASP.NET
Filed in Shendy's Dev Corner on Jan.13, 2009
I was trying to create a CDATA section with an XML file, and had something like this:
var pinEntrySubmitBtnURL = copyXML.CreateElement(“pinEntry_submitBtn_URL”);
var pinEntrySubmitBtnURLContent = copyXML.CreateTextNode( “<![CDATA[hidden_pin.ashx]]>”);
pinEntrySubmitBtnURL.AppendChild(pinEntrySubmitBtnURLContent);
copyNodes.Add( pinEntrySubmitBtnURL );
All of my intended XML data was coming out as escaped XML:
<![CDATA[hidden_pin.ashx]]>
It took me a few minutes to track this down, but eventually Intellisense gave me the answer. Turns out [...]
