CDATA support

Dear developers,

I have to use mixed CDATA contents. It means that the node can have CDATA or text or both mixed. I am not able to change the XSD Schema for a new simply type. For a fast solution I added a regex detection for the use of cdata in the jsonix.js, but I don’t think that this is a good solution. Is there a way to keep CDATA from XML file?

My fast solution: if (this.asCDATA && value.match(/<.+>/g) != null)

Best regards, Justin

[highsource]

I’m on FOSSGIS2019 so I can’t reply promptly.

Technically this

<content lang="de"><![CDATA[<p>Something<latex>$m \ge 1 g$</latex> text.</p>]]></content>

is exactly the same as this

<content lang="de">&lt;p&gt;Something &lt;latex&gt;$m \ge 1 g$&lt;/latex&gt; text.&lt;/p&gt;<content>

I understand that these are different cosmetics but technically it is not really relevant.

However I can follow that you might be interested in actual cosmetics to make XML more readable. The problem is, however the presentation in the JS side. Somehow you will need to distinguish between normal text and CDATA-text. So improving cosmetics on the XML side might lead to much more complex models on the JS side. Which, in my PoV is a too high price.

But here’s an idea. Maybe we could implement some automatic that Jsonix automatically produces CDATA sections if the text contains too much markup/special characters? Like if there are more that N <s, >s, 'es and &s then automatically create a CDATA-section.
What do you think?

[Veganizer]

I just had an idea. Maybe you like: https://github.com/highsource/jsonix/pull/215

This would allow the user to do a conditional CDATA by regex.

if ((this.asCDATA && this.CDATAcondition == null) || (this.asCDATA && value.match(new RegExp(this.CDATAcondition)) ))