How do I add CDATA to an xml file?

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I have an existing xml file that holds notifications I want to display on my site. A snippet follows:

<contents> <item> <![CDATA[ <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://engadget.com">Engadget</a> ]]> </item> <item> <![CDATA[ <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://cnn.com">CNN</a> ]]> </item> </contents>

I'm trying to open this document and add new "items" to it, but I can't:

 foreach (string s in notifications) { XmlElement newElement = doc.CreateElement("item"); newElement.InnerXml = "&lt;![CDATA[ " + s + " ]]>"; doc.DocumentElement.SelectNodes("/contents")[0].AppendChild(newElement); }

notifications is a List that I'm using to store the links. The error I'm getting is:

']]>' is not allowed in character data.

The notifications need to contain HTML, because of the way I'm displaying it. Thanks for looking, guys.

Alohci · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-28 00:24:18Z

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Try using

newElement.AppendChild(doc.CreateCDataSection(s));

instead of

newElement.InnerXml = "&lt;![CDATA[ " + s + " ]]>";

answered Feb 28, 2012 at 0:24

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andryuhat · Accepted Answer · 2012-02-27 22:58:54Z

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Try this way:

newElement.InnerXml = "&lt;![CDATA[ " + s + " ]]&gt;";

answered Feb 27, 2012 at 22:58

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