[Qt-interest] How to: parse an xml file with tags

[Nikolay Moskvichev]

Hello, anders.bakken at nokia.com
18.02.2010 4:18 you wrote:
> Surely there are open source dom implementations out there that are both
> maintained and faster. While Qt often gives you everything you need to write
> your entire application there's nothing preventing you from mixing and
> matching with other libraries.
> 

what part of

> 2) There is a substantial code base that uses it.  I have invested a  
> good deal of time converting my code from xerces to Qt and them  
> extending it.


was lost on you? ;)



> Anders
> 
> On 2/17/10 6:24 AM, "ext Thiago Macieira" <thiago at kde.org> wrote:
> 
>> Em Terça-feira 16. Fevereiro 2010, às 22.13.38, Josiah Bryan escreveu:
>>> Ross - Not to add fuel to the fire, but you do realize that Qt is
>>> GPL/LGPL and the source is available. Even if Thiago et al doesn't
>>> update QDom from here till eternity, you still could take the source for
>>> QDom, add it to your own source control repo and update it yourself?
>>> QDom won't disappear off the face of the planet, it just won't get
>>> updated by Trolltech - you could still update it to keep it usable with
>>> future Qt versions once Trolltech (in the far future) drops it...
>>> 
>>> Just my thoughts... I've had to do this with other open source projects
>>> that I relied on, but the maintainers changed direction. So I just
>>> grabbed a copy of their source at the point that it worked for me and
>>> added it to my repo for use internally, and updated it to work with more
>>> recent versions of Qt.
>> 
>> I should also add some more details:
>> 
>> There are no Qt 5 plans. Anything about it is speculation. We don't know when
>> it will happen and what it will contain -- or what will be left out. Will
>> there be a DOM API? No idea.
>> 
>> But my guess is that there won't be.
>> 
>> The interesting thing about the QtXml module in Qt 4 is that it requires very
>> little of the rest of Qt. If Qt 5 doesn't come with DOM support, maybe someone
>> can port QtXml 4 to Qt 5 and maintain it.
>> 
>> That someone may be able to give DOM the love it needs and make it even
>> better. We're not seeing the value in it because we believe XML streaming is
>> more useful and more efficient.
>> 
>> --
>> Thiago Macieira - thiago (AT) macieira.info - thiago (AT) kde.org
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