Passing Cdata to xml

Still looking for an answer here, although I found a workaround.

In my generator, I want to pass my input document wrapped in a CDATA tag because my InputDocument is an externally-provided XML containing its own XML declaration and I want to preserve it as-is.

Example "InputObject":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>MyInputObject</root>

Input (from my XML Generator):

<InputDocument><![CDATA[$InputObject]]></InputDocument>

Output:

<InputDocument>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;&lt;root&gt;MyInputObject&lt;/root&gt;</InputDocument>

The only workaround I've found is to put the following in my XML Generator, then use .replace() in a Mapper:

Input:

<InputDocument>_INPUTDOCUMENTPLACEHOLDER_</InputDocument>

Replace:

$xml.replace("_INPUTDOCUMENTPLACEHOLDER_","<![CDATA["+$original.InputObject+"]]>")​

 Output:

<InputDocument><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><root>MyInputObject</root>]]></InputDocument>