xmlgroovymarkupbuilder

Generate CDATA in XML using groovy MarkupBuilder

I want to be able to generate a CDATA portion in my XML using Groovy. I have used the mkp of the MarkupBuilder to do that, but it's not working. I am looping through products and then generate the following snippet as part of the XML. I get the following instead: It prints the unescaped text next to the product code instead of in the description, which is left blank.

  <product>
     <name>banana</name>
     <code>10002</code><name>ICON_1</name><!CDATA[This product is on 
                                                     sale]]]>
     <description/>
   </product>

Here is the portion which In use to generate the data.

 product{
    name (product.name)
    code (product.code)
    description mkp.yieldUnescaped("<!CDATA[${product.description}]]>")
}

This is what I want to print:

<product>
   <name>banana</name>
   <code>10002</code>
   <description><![CDATA[This product is on sale]]></description>
</product>
Solution

  • You just need to use some curly braces around your CDATA section to give the builder a hint of where to place it:

    def out = new StringWriter()
def xml = new groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder(out)

xml.product {
    name ('banana') 
    code ('10002')
    description { mkp.yieldUnescaped("<![CDATA[Example of text in a CDATA block]]>") }
}

System.out.println out.toString()

    This produces:

    <product>
  <name>banana</name>
  <code>10002</code>
  <description><![CDATA[Example of text in a CDATA block]]></description>
</product>