Question

I remember doing it before, so I guess I’m missing something here.
XMLNode’s nodeType property only support ELEMENT_NODE and TEXT_NODE, and if I try to add the CDATA section to the XMLNode as a string it get escaped.

var node:XMLNode = new XMLNode(3, "<![CDATA[some text and <tags> here]]>");

What I get is a TEXT_NODE with the following value:

&lt ;![CDATA[some text and &lt
;tags&gt ; here]]&gt ;

which isn’t even a valid value for a TEXT_NODE

Answer 1

It will not parse, you may need a backway of doing it.

Trial one : add your node content as a string

var sometext:String = 'some text and <tags> here';

add a blank XMLNode to your document and then use xml.replace

xml.replace('blanknode','<blanknode><![CDATA[' + sometext + ']]></blanknode>');

Trial two: return it from a XML return type function into the XMLNode

Update

var sometext:String = 'some text and <b>bold</b> here';
        var nodeblank:XMLNode = new XMLNode(1,insert(sometext));
        trace(nodeblank);


        var txt:TextField = new TextField();
        txt.htmlText = nodeblank.nodeName;
        addChild(txt);

This shows in the TextField -> some text and bold here

public function insert(s:String):XML {
            var x:XML = new XML("<![CDATA[" + s + "]]>");
            return x;
    }