[Development] RFC: unified data model API in QtCore

[Olivier Goffart]

On 2018-06-14 02:08, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> [...]
> For example, the next data model over would be XML. And we are indeed missing
> a DOM structure for it since we deprecated QDomDocument. Can anyone see a data
> structure that works for both JSON/CBOR and generic XML? More importantly, one
> that is worthy of being Qt, with nice, intuitive API?

QDomDocument is, in fact, not deprecated.

As Lars said, XML has more concepts, such as namespace, attributes, ... that 
it'd be difficult to fit it in the same API.

I suppose it is fine to keep QDomDocument as a separate class.

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Olivier

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