CharacterData.substringData(int offset, int count) has the following syntax.
String substringData(int offset, int count) throws DOMException
In the following code shows how to use CharacterData.substringData(int offset, int count) method.
import java.io.StringReader; /*from ww w.j a v a2s . co m*/ import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory; import org.w3c.dom.CDATASection; import org.w3c.dom.CharacterData; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.xml.sax.InputSource; public class Main { public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception { DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); InputSource is = new InputSource(); is.setCharacterStream(new StringReader(xmlRecords)); Document doc = factory.newDocumentBuilder().parse(is); CDATASection cdataNode = doc.createCDATASection(""); CharacterData cdata = cdataNode; cdata.setData("from java2s.com"); System.out.println(cdataNode.substringData(2, 4)); } static String xmlRecords = "<data></data>"; }
The code above generates the following result.