How to read CDATA using XmlReader in C#?

Question

I am able to read xml using XmlReader, but not able to read xml's CDATA portion.

How to read it ?

Below is my code

private void ParseDataValueNode(XmlReader CmdNode, Message Msg)
        {
            int DataValueNodeCount = 0;
            while (CmdNode.Read())
            {
                if (CmdNode.Name.Equals("DataValue") && CmdNode.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)
                {
                    DataValueNodeCount++;
                    ParseDataValueNode(CmdNode, Msg, DataValueNodeCount, true);
                }
            }
        }

XML

  <Response Id="2">
    <Information>
      <![CDATA[ <DataValue Name="abc" Value="dddd"/> <DataValue Name="ccc" Value="ffff"/> <DataValue Name="ddd" Value="dfdf"/> ]]>
    </Information>
  </Response>

If xml doesn't contain CDATA then it works perfectly fine, however in case CDATA it doesn't read elements under CDATA

Everything inside CDATA is a single text() node. You need to start a new reader for that DocumentFragment — rene
– rene, Commented Dec 14, 2015 at 7:44

EylM · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-14 09:08:10Z

2

The data inside the CDATA section is treated as plain text. You need to load it's contents into the new DOMDocument. You can recognize the CDATA using this code:

if (CmdNode.NodeType == XmlNodeType.CDATA)

answered Dec 14, 2015 at 9:08

EylM

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