Here you can find the source of getCDATA(Element elem)
public static final String getCDATA(Element elem)
//package com.java2s; /******************************************************************************* * Copyright (c) 2007-2012 Red Hat, Inc. * Distributed under license by Red Hat, Inc. All rights reserved. * This program is made available under the terms of the * Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution, * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html * /*from w ww .jav a 2 s . com*/ * Contributors: * Red Hat, Inc. - initial API and implementation ******************************************************************************/ import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.NodeList; import org.w3c.dom.Text; public class Main { public static final String getCDATA(Element elem) { return getCDATA(elem, true); } public static final String getCDATA(Element elem, boolean trim) { StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(); NodeList nl = elem.getChildNodes(); for (int i = 0; i < nl.getLength(); i++) { Node nc = nl.item(i); if (nc.getNodeType() == Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE) { sb.append(((Text) nc).getData()); } else if (nc.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE) { String txt = ((Text) nc).getData(); if (trim) { txt = txt.trim(); } sb.append(txt); } } return sb.toString(); } }