[Qt-interest] How to access QDomNode's value?

[Kai Koehne]

On 7/21/2010 5:50 PM, ext Eeli Reilin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to get the QDomNode's value(the string between the tags), and
> only getting an empty string.
>
> Let's say that I have an XML data like this:
>
>    <root>
>    	<foo>bar</foo>
>    </root>



> I have tried to read the value like this:
>
>    QDomDocument doc;		
>    QDomNode fooNode = doc.documentElement().firstChildElement("foo");
> 	
>    if(fooNode.isNull()) {
>    	qDebug()<<  "Error: could not find Foo!";
> 	return;
>    }
>
>    QString fooValue = fooNode.nodeValue();
>


Try something like

QDomElement fooElement = doc.documentElement().firstChildElement("foo");
// ..
QString fooValue = fooElement.text();


See also http://doc.trolltech.com/4.7-snapshot/qdomnode.html and related 
help pages.

> I would obviously want fooValue to contain "bar", but all I get is an
> empty string.
>
> I'm totally lost on this, so please help me!
>
>
> Best regards,
> Eeli Reilin
>
>
>
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