How to update text inside CDATA

Question

I want to replace the text inside the cdata section, but when I just try to add text to it, I lose the CDATA definition.

I have XML like this:

<title><![CDATA[string]]></title>

When I try to update this field with a new value:

myXmlNode.SelectSingleNode("title").InnerText = TextBoxName.Text;

Exit

<title>string</title>

How can I save it as CDATA?

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jpkeisala May 22 '09 at 7:19

2 answers

I would do:

myXmlNode.SelectSingleNode("title").FirstChild.InnerText = TextBoxName.Text;

This way you don't have to deal with the CDATA format in your code (change: hardcoding <! [CDATA [doesn't work anyway as Anthony pointed out)

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Matthew flaschen May 22 '09 at 7:41

AnthonyWJones · Accepted Answer · 2009-05-22T07:26:57+0000

The title element will have a child CData, which should be different like this: -

 ((XmlCDataSection)myXmlNode.SelectSingleNode("title").FirstChild).Value = TextBoxName.Text