Question

Does anybody have an idea how to find out whether an element contains <![CDATA[ text ]]> or not ? I search through the dom4j API and Jaxen and I can’t find how to do that… If I retrieve the text, it the cdata wrapper is trimmed.

Answer 1

Technically you can still do this.

public boolean isCDATA(org.dom4j.Node node) {
  for (org.dom4j.Node n : node.content()) {
    if (org.w3c.dom.Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE == n.getNodeType()) {
      return true;
    }
  }
  return false;
}