Extracting content from <![CDATA []]>

jquery xml cdata
Jojo picture Jojo · Dec 14, 2010 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

I am having a string like:

"<![CDATA [Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, <a href="http://www.google.com">consectetur</a> siptum. adipiscing elit. Phasellus pulvinar hendrerit malesuada. Mauris eget ante nulla. Suspendisse tempus lorem id.]]>"

using jquery I need to extract the entire content which is inside the <![CDATA []]>. consider the entire data to be stored in a string variable. Please help me with this.

Answer

Lucas Anschau picture Lucas Anschau · Nov 26, 2018

You can do this with pure javascript, using substring:

var cDataString = "<![CDATA [Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, <a href=\"http://www.google.com\">consectetur</a> siptum. adipiscing elit. Phasellus pulvinar hendrerit malesuada. Mauris eget ante nulla. Suspendisse tempus lorem id.]]>";
cDataString = cDataString.substring(0, (cDataString.length - 3)); // remove ]]>
cDataString = cDataString.substring(10, (cDataString.length)); // remove <![CDATA [
alert(cDataString);

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