Dynamically add conforming CDATA sections?

[stevenvachon]

Is there a way to dynamically add CDATA that conforms to type:"cdata"?

var xml = "<container> <tag1> <![CDATA[ asdf ]]> </tag1> <tag2/> </container>";
var $ = require("cheerio").load(xml, {xmlMode:true});

$("tag2").append("<![CDATA[ asdf ]]>");
$(":root").append("<tag3><![CDATA[ asdf ]]></tag3>").children("tag3");

// <container> <tag1> <![CDATA[ asdf ]]> </tag1> <tag2><!--[CDATA[ asdf ]]--></tag2> <tag3><!--[CDATA[ asdf ]]--></tag3></container>
console.log( $.xml() );

So far, all I could figure out was to manually mimic the object/array structure (annoying).

[stevenvachon]

Ah, found it. The options from cheerio.load() are not getting passed to the Cheerio instance, so it never receives xmlMode:true. I'll fix this tomorrow and send a PR.

[fb55]

I'll fix this tomorrow and send a PR.

That would be incredibly useful. @jugglinmike already showed how to do it in #274, which seems to be the way to do it, but it was never merged.

I'll close this, as it's a duplicate.