Purpose / Goal

Changes the parsing of CDATA sections to not escape entities.

In other words:

• Before: <[CDATA[&amp;]]> -> &
• After: <[CDATA[&amp;]]> -> &

I also added a new test so that this behavior can be tested on its own.

Please note that I did not attempt to avoid any breaking changes here as the issue suggested, but if it is desired, I would be happy to gate this fix behind a new option.

The contents of a CDATA section will also now be run through tagValueProcessor even when the cdataPropName option is provided. I am unsure as to if this inconsistency was intentional (the code that would have made it consistent seems to have been commented out a while ago), so if that is considered an unrelated change, I would also be happy to split it out into a separate PR.

Closes #632.

Performance tests

Before:

fxp v3 : 57564.501862728255 requests/second
fxp : 32731.178545462913 requests/second
fxp - preserve order : 35714.0221273455 requests/second
xmlbuilder2 : 15299.516192662688 requests/second
xml2js  : 18881.74875804895 requests/second

After:

fxp v3 : 57721.92080194106 requests/second
fxp : 36231.444954502214 requests/second
fxp - preserve order : 39372.370501577694 requests/second
xmlbuilder2 : 15294.661359575506 requests/second
xml2js  : 18533.786914067532 requests/second

Type

Please mention the type of PR

• Bug Fix
• Refactoring / Technology upgrade
• New Feature