diff --git a/src/xml/xml.cpp b/src/xml/xml.cpp
index a37225c3dd..1917c27ba8 100644
--- a/src/xml/xml.cpp
+++ b/src/xml/xml.cpp
@@ -618,6 +618,17 @@ static void StartCdataHnd(void *userData)
     ctx->lastChild= ctx->lastAsText = textnode;
 }
 
+static void EndCdataHnd(void *userData)
+{
+    wxXmlParsingContext *ctx = (wxXmlParsingContext*)userData;
+
+    // we need to reset this pointer so that subsequent text nodes don't append
+    // their contents to this one but create new wxXML_TEXT_NODE objects (or
+    // not create anything at all if only white space follows the CDATA section
+    // and wxXMLDOC_KEEP_WHITESPACE_NODES is not used as is commonly the case)
+    ctx->lastAsText = NULL;
+}
+
 static void CommentHnd(void *userData, const char *data)
 {
     wxXmlParsingContext *ctx = (wxXmlParsingContext*)userData;
@@ -717,7 +728,7 @@ bool wxXmlDocument::Load(wxInputStream& stream, const wxString& encoding, int fl
     XML_SetUserData(parser, (void*)&ctx);
     XML_SetElementHandler(parser, StartElementHnd, EndElementHnd);
     XML_SetCharacterDataHandler(parser, TextHnd);
-    XML_SetStartCdataSectionHandler(parser, StartCdataHnd);
+    XML_SetCdataSectionHandler(parser, StartCdataHnd, EndCdataHnd);;
     XML_SetCommentHandler(parser, CommentHnd);
     XML_SetDefaultHandler(parser, DefaultHnd);
     XML_SetUnknownEncodingHandler(parser, UnknownEncodingHnd, NULL);
diff --git a/tests/xml/xmltest.cpp b/tests/xml/xmltest.cpp
index d8cda12b03..9f3d6056a5 100644
--- a/tests/xml/xmltest.cpp
+++ b/tests/xml/xmltest.cpp
@@ -210,7 +210,8 @@ void XmlTestCase::CDATA()
     n = n->GetChildren();
     CPPUNIT_ASSERT( n );
 
-    // currently leading white space is stripped by trailing is preserved (see
-    // #10552)
-    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL( "Giovanni Mittone\n", n->GetContent() );
+    // check that both leading ("  ") and trailing white space is not part of
+    // the node contents when CDATA is used and wxXMLDOC_KEEP_WHITESPACE_NODES
+    // is not
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL( "Giovanni Mittone", n->GetContent() );
 }