diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7a0ad26..49314e3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
     <groupId>com.github.miachm.sods</groupId>
     <artifactId>SODS</artifactId>
     <packaging>jar</packaging>
-    <version>1.6.0</version>
+    <version>1.6.3</version>
 
     <name>Simple ODS library</name>
     <description>A library for load/save ODS files in java.</description>
diff --git a/resources/features/bugs/cellContent.feature b/resources/features/bugs/cellContent.feature
index a9894e0..aa1d1e9 100644
--- a/resources/features/bugs/cellContent.feature
+++ b/resources/features/bugs/cellContent.feature
@@ -23,3 +23,9 @@ Feature: Bugs related to invalid cell value content in SODS
     When the client creates a Range with 1,1,1,1
     Then the formula of the range is "SUM(Operations!C:C)"
 
+  Scenario: Data tags returns a null value
+    When load a spreadsheet from the resource "emptyCell"
+    When get the first sheet
+    Then the cell values are:
+      | Test 1 |
+      | A      |
diff --git a/src/com/github/miachm/sods/OdsReader.java b/src/com/github/miachm/sods/OdsReader.java
index 3bbd1a8..ddaa522 100644
--- a/src/com/github/miachm/sods/OdsReader.java
+++ b/src/com/github/miachm/sods/OdsReader.java
@@ -505,7 +505,6 @@ private void readCellText(XmlReaderInstance cellReader, Range range) {
             } else {
                 s.append("\n");
             }
-
             // Add content of any contained text:span tags
             XmlReaderInstance spanElement = textElement.nextElement("text:s",
                     XmlReaderInstance.CHARACTERS);
diff --git a/src/com/github/miachm/sods/XmlReaderInstanceEventImpl.java b/src/com/github/miachm/sods/XmlReaderInstanceEventImpl.java
index 9a305a7..f275b4e 100644
--- a/src/com/github/miachm/sods/XmlReaderInstanceEventImpl.java
+++ b/src/com/github/miachm/sods/XmlReaderInstanceEventImpl.java
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.Map;
+import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants;
 
 class XmlReaderInstanceEventImpl implements XmlReaderInstance {
     private XMLStreamReader reader;
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ class XmlReaderInstanceEventImpl implements XmlReaderInstance {
                 String value = reader.getAttributeValue(i);
                 atributes.put(name, value);
             }
-        else if (reader.isCharacters()) {
+        else if (isCharacters(reader)) {
             characters = reader.getText();
             end = true;
         }
@@ -58,7 +59,7 @@ else if (reader.isEndElement()) {
                         return null;
                     }
                 }
-                else if (reader.isCharacters()) {
+                else if (isCharacters(reader)) {
                     if (contains(names, CHARACTERS))
                         return new XmlReaderInstanceEventImpl(reader, CHARACTERS);
                 }
@@ -85,7 +86,11 @@ public String getContent()
     public String getTag() {
         return tag;
     }
-
+    
+    private boolean isCharacters(XMLStreamReader reader) {
+        return reader.isCharacters() || reader.getEventType() == XMLStreamConstants.CDATA;
+    }
+    
     private String qNameToString(QName qName)
     {
         return qName.getPrefix() + ":" + qName.getLocalPart();
diff --git a/tests/steps/SpreadsheetCucumber.java b/tests/steps/SpreadsheetCucumber.java
index 27e07d1..7388c1b 100644
--- a/tests/steps/SpreadsheetCucumber.java
+++ b/tests/steps/SpreadsheetCucumber.java
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ public void the_cell_values_are(DataTable dataTable) throws Throwable {
         Object[][] items = World.sheet.getDataRange().getValues();
 
         for (int i = 0; i < table.size(); i++) {
-            for (int j = 0; j < table.size(); j++) {
+            for (int j = 0; j < table.get(i).size(); j++) {
                 String value = table.get(i).get(j);
                 if (value.equals(""))
                     value = null;