diff --git a/src/XMLParser.php b/src/XMLParser.php
index 5c53d33..792b627 100644
--- a/src/XMLParser.php
+++ b/src/XMLParser.php
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ public function setUp(): void {
 
 		// @see https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.xml-parser-set-option.php
 		xml_parser_set_option($this->parser, XML_OPTION_CASE_FOLDING, false);
+		xml_parser_set_option($this->parser, XML_OPTION_SKIP_WHITE, true);
 	}
 
 	private function close(): void {
diff --git a/tests/XMLParserCDataTest.php b/tests/XMLParserCDataTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a647b0c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/XMLParserCDataTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+<?php
+
+use Elecena\XmlIterator\Nodes\XMLNodeContent;
+
+class XMLParserCDataTest extends XMLParserTestCase
+{
+	protected function getParserStream() {
+		return self::streamFromString(<<<XML
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<item>
+  <title>Title of Feed Item</title>
+  <link>/mylink/article1</link>
+  <description>
+  	<![CDATA[
+      <p>
+      <a href="/mylink/article1"><img style="float: left; margin-right: 5px;" height="80" src="/mylink/image" alt=""/></a>
+      Author Names
+      <br/><em>Date</em>
+      <br/>Paragraph of text describing the article to be displayed</p>
+    ]]>
+  </description>
+</item>
+XML);
+	}
+
+	public function testCDataIsProperlyParsed(): void
+	{
+		$node = null;
+
+		foreach ($this->getParser() as $item) {
+			if ($item instanceof XMLNodeContent && $item->tagName === 'description') {
+				if (trim($item->tagContent) !== '') {
+					$node = $item;
+					break;
+				}
+			}
+		}
+
+		$this->assertInstanceOf(XMLNodeContent::class, $node);
+		$this->assertStringStartsWith("<p>\n      <a href=\"/mylink/article1\">", trim($node->tagContent));
+	}
+}
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diff --git a/tests/XMLParserWhitespacesTest.php b/tests/XMLParserWhitespacesTest.php
index 17c1ba9..b5b86b4 100644
--- a/tests/XMLParserWhitespacesTest.php
+++ b/tests/XMLParserWhitespacesTest.php
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <?php
 
-use Elecena\XmlIterator\Exceptions\ParsingError;
+use Elecena\XmlIterator\Nodes\XMLNodeContent;
 
 class XMLParserWhitespacesTest extends XMLParserTestCase
 {
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ public function testProperlyReportWhitespacesBetweenClosingTags(): void
 		$locNodesContent = [];
 
 		foreach ($this->getParser() as $item) {
-			if ($item instanceof \Elecena\XmlIterator\Nodes\XMLNodeContent && $item->tagName === 'loc') {
+			if ($item instanceof XMLNodeContent && $item->tagName === 'loc') {
 				$locNodesContent[] = $item;
 			}
 		}
@@ -30,4 +30,4 @@ public function testProperlyReportWhitespacesBetweenClosingTags(): void
 		$this->assertCount(1, $locNodesContent);
 		$this->assertEquals('https://elecena.pl/sitemap-001-search.xml.gz', $locNodesContent[0]->tagContent);
 	}
-}
+}
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