[Qt-interest] Qt5 and XML DOM

[Thiago Macieira]

On Wednesday, 11 de May de 2011 19:18:43 Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
> 11.05.2011, 18:39, "Jason H" <scorp1us at yahoo.com>:
> > I need to insist on QDom remaining in Qt5.
> > 
> > Qt has no replacement for this functionality.
> > 
> > If I am wrong that there is some other way to comare XML documents not
> > using QDom, please tell me. If there is a way to create documents from
> > a nested structure without QDom, please tell me.
> > 
> > I know everyone loves to hate DOM, but it has its place.
> 
> What's wrong with QDom? Why anybody should hate it?

They're slow and memory-intensive. They don't deal with incomplete XML data. 
Their behaviour is undefined with malformed XML: there's no error reporting. 
And the namespace support may be incomplete.

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