From Wang Rui, "I've added CDATA tag support to XmlParser so that we can keep user

data (e.g., GLSL shader texts) in XML files without parsing them. This
will be necessary for the coming-soon effect compositor submission.
:-)"

src/osgDB/XmlParser.cpp

@@ -217,6 +217,26 @@ bool XmlNode::read(Input& input)
                 input += end;
             }
         }
+        else if (input.match("<![CDATA["))
+        {
+            XmlNode* commentNode = new XmlNode;
+            commentNode->type = XmlNode::INFORMATION;
+            children.push_back(commentNode);
+
+            input += 9;
+            XmlNode::Input::size_type end = input.find("]]>");
+            commentNode->contents = input.substr(0, end);
+            if (end!=std::string::npos)
+            {
+                OSG_INFO<<"Valid infomation record ["<<commentNode->contents<<"]"<<std::endl;
+                input += (end+2);
+            }
+            else
+            {
+                OSG_NOTICE<<"Error: Unclosed infomation record ["<<commentNode->contents<<"]"<<std::endl;
+                input += end;
+            }
+        }
         else if (input.match("<?"))
         {
             XmlNode* commentNode = new XmlNode;