Java Utililty Methods XML CDATA Append

void appendCDATA(Element parent, String content)
Adds a nested CDATA section.

Document doc = parent.getOwnerDocument();
CDATASection c = doc.createCDATASection(content);
parent.appendChild(c);

void appendCDATAElement(Element parent, String name, String content)
Adds a nested CDATA section in a new child element.

Element e = createChildElement(parent, name);
appendCDATA(e, content);

Element appendCDATAElement(Element parent, String tagName, String value)
append CDATA Element

Element child = appendElement(parent, tagName);
if (value == null) {
 value = "";
Node cdata = child.getOwnerDocument().createCDATASection(value);
child.appendChild(cdata);
return child;

Element appendCDATAElement(Element parent, String tagName, String value)
Appends the CDATA element to the parent element.

Element child = appendElement(parent, tagName);
if (value == null) { 
 value = "";
Node cdata = child.getOwnerDocument().createCDATASection(value);
child.appendChild(cdata);
return child;

void appendCDATASection(CDATASection cdataSection, StringBuffer buf)
append CDATA Section

buf.append("<![CDATA[");
buf.append(cdataSection.getData());
buf.append("]]>");

void appendCDATASection(Node parent, String name, Object data)
append CDATA Section

Document doc = (parent.getNodeType() == Node.DOCUMENT_NODE) ? (Document) parent : parent.getOwnerDocument();
Element e = doc.createElement(name);
parent.appendChild(e);
e.appendChild(doc.createCDATASection(data.toString()));

void appendCDATASubNode(String elementName, String nodeData, Element parentElement, Document doc)
Creates a cdata node within a created element and then attaches the date to a parent.

Element subElement = doc.createElement(elementName);
subElement.appendChild(doc.createCDATASection(nodeData));
parentElement.appendChild(subElement);

void setCDATA(Element element, String data)
set CDATA

if (data == null)
 data = ""; 
element.appendChild(element.getOwnerDocument().createCDATASection(data));

void setCData(Element element, String data)
Sets data to be the CDATA content of element

if (data == null)
 return;
CDATASection txt = getCDataNode(element);
if (txt != null)
 txt.setData(data);
else {
 txt = element.getOwnerDocument().createCDATASection(data);
 element.appendChild(txt);
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