Although the IXMLDOMCDATASection inherits IXMLDOMText, unlike text nodes, the normalize method of IXMLDOMElement does not merge CDATASection nodes.

Example

var xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.5.0");
var nodeCDATA;
nodeCDATA = xmlDoc.createCDATASection("Hello");
alert(nodeCDATA.xml);

Example

Dim xmlDoc As New Msxml2.DOMDocument50
Dim nodeCDATA As IXMLDOMCDATASection
Set nodeCDATA = xmlDoc.createCDATASection("Hello")
MsgBox nodeCDATA.xml

Example

The following C/C++ example creates and appends a new CDATASection node to the root document element.

#import "msxml5.dll"
using namespace MSXML2;

inline void TESTHR( HRESULT _hr ) 
   { if FAILED(_hr) throw(_hr); }


void XMLDOMCDATASectionSample()
{
   try {
      IXMLDOMDocumentPtr docPtr;
      IXMLDOMNodePtr DOMNodePtr;

      //init
      TESTHR(CoInitialize(NULL)); 
      TESTHR(docPtr.CreateInstance("msxml2.domdocument"));
      
      // load a document
      _variant_t varXml("C:\\book.xml");
      _variant_t varOut((bool)TRUE);
      varOut = docPtr->load(varXml);
      if ((bool)varOut == FALSE)
         throw(0);
      MessageBox(NULL, _bstr_t(docPtr->xml), _T("Original Document"), MB_OK);

      DOMNodePtr = docPtr->createCDATASection("<fragment>XML tags 
inside a CDATA section</fragment>");
      docPtr->documentElement->appendChild(DOMNodePtr);

      MessageBox(NULL, _bstr_t(docPtr->xml), _T("New Document"), MB_OK);

   } catch(...)
   {
      MessageBox(NULL, _T("Exception occurred"), _T("Error"), MB_OK);
   }
   CoUninitialize();
}

Header and IDL files: msxml2.h, msxml2.idl