Name

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KDM_CDATA

Purpose

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      Wrap a string in CDATA tags: "<![CDATA[" + string + "]]>"

Category

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Strings, KML

Calling Sequence

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  result = KDM_CDATA( string )

Inputs

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string: A string or string array

Outputs

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  this version returns the input wrapped in the CDATA tag (for
  embedding HTML in KML. If the input is an array of strings each
  string is wrapped.

Restrictions

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The function will not double-wrap, even if you want it to.

Example

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  IDL> print, kdm_cdata('foo')
  <![CDATA[foo]]>
  IDL> print, kdm_cdata( [ 'foo', 'bar' ] )
  <![CDATA[foo]]>

Modification History

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  Written by: Ken Mankoff. 2009
2009-09-22: Rewrote to check for double-wrapping with arrays.