Cretion CDATA section confusing

Question

Trying o create CDATA section withing description field, code is pretty simple in resulting XML CDATA section does not appear!!

Node de = document.createElement("description");
de.appendChild(document.createCDATASection(reportData.getIssue().getDescription() + "more]]>data"));
e.appendChild(de);

In result XML getting:

<description>Room #1128 has AD issues.more]]&gt;data</description>

What I'm doing wrong?!

Answer 1

You can't write a > in the XML Data.
It's being escaped into > (greater than)

Notice that the Greater Than sign will mess up your </description> tag because its the beginning of an end tag.

You can read about it here (among other places)

Answer 2

The sequence ]]> terminates a CDATA section and thus cannot appear within a CDATA section.

Your XML library is recovering by ditching the CDATA section and using entities for characters that would have special meaning.

Since <foo><![CDATA[Hello, world>]]></foo> and <foo>Hello, world&gt;</foo> are equivalent, this isn't a problem (unless someone tries to parse the resulting XML with a tool that isn't an XML parser, which way lies madness).