how to write a CDATA node using libxml2?

Question

I\'m using libxml2 to read/write xml files. Now I\'m trying to write a CDATA node.

Here is what I tried:

nodePtr = xmlNewChild( parentPtr, NULL, \"f         


        

Answer 1

I cannot say for all versions of libxml2, but according to libxml2-2.9.4 the doc part of returning node of xmlNewChild comes from its parent. Also the parent of child node returned from xmlNewCDataBlock is set by doc parameter. So the following would be a good practice:

const char str[] = "said the kitty";
xmlNodePtr node = xmlNewNode(NULL, BAD_CAST "meow");
xmlNodePtr cdata_node = xmlNewCDataBlock(node->doc, BAD_CAST str, strlen(str));
xmlAddChild(node, cdata_node);

The resulting xml is

And it would not matter if node is part of an xmlDoc or not