Question

I am writing some code that talks to a legacy system that needs the following element:

<BankRate><![CDATA[        ]]><BankRate>

I can’t for the life of me get this working, my attempt so far is:

parent.setBankRate("    ");
XmlCursor cursor = cc.xgetBankRate().newCursor();
cursor.toFirstContentToken();
cursor.setBookmark(CDataBookmark.CDATA_BOOKMARK);
cursor.dispose();

This simply results in the following:

<BankRate><BankRate>

The options for the parent is:
setSaveCDataEntityCountThreshold(0).setSaveCDataLengthThreshold(0);

If I setBankRate like the following:

cc.setBankRate("<![CDATA[        ]]>");

I get character entities (which is not what I want)

Answer 1

I tried the following test:

import org.apache.xmlbeans.*;

public class main {
    public static void main ( String[] args ) throws XmlException {
        XmlObject x = XmlObject.Factory.parse( "<BankRate>        </BankRate>" );
        XmlCursor c = x.newCursor();
        c.toFirstContentToken();
        c.toNextToken();
        c.setBookmark(CDataBookmark.CDATA_BOOKMARK);
        XmlOptions options = new XmlOptions();
        options.setSaveCDataLengthThreshold( 1 );
        options.setUseCDataBookmarks();
        System.out.print( x.xmlText( options ) );
    }
}

The result is:

<BankRate><![CDATA[        ]]></BankRate>

If your goal is to force the saving of the contents of BankRate as CDATA, this is how you do it.

However, if this does not work, and you get nothing (the empty element) as the value of BankRate, then what is probably happening is that the BankRate Type is not text, and is some other type which ignores white space. If you really need to get whitespace as the value of BankRate, you will have to inject it with an XmlCursor.