Can CDATA sections be preserved by BeautifulSoup?

Question

I\'m using BeautifulSoup to read, modify, and write an XML file. I\'m having trouble with CDATA sections being stripped out. Here\'s a simplified example.

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Answer 1

In my case if I use

soup = BeautifulSoup( xmlfile, "lxml-xml" )

then cdata is preserved and accesible.