How to get the content of an Element (CDATA) while preserving line breaks?

Question

I tried to get the content of an Element which has only a CDATA section. Inside the CDATA are multiple lines of text.

However when I try element.getValue() .getText() or .getTextTrim() they all strip the line breaks out.

I need to get a String that preserves the linebreaks. What can I do?

Answer 1

Here's some code I put together, based on the example XML file:

<root>
   <data><![CDATA[This is text
   with some newlines
   in it, and some other spaces.]]></data>
</root>

and the code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws JDOMException, IOException {
    Document doc = new SAXBuilder().build("data/cdata.xml");
    String cdata = doc.getRootElement().getChild("data").getText();
    System.out.println(cdata);
}

which produces the output:

This is text
   with some newlines
   in it, and some other spaces.

which implies that it works OK.