QTextEdit as html templating engine

YuriQ

Hello.
First - sorry for my English, hope you will understand me :)
I need to implement a simple templating engine based on QTextEdit. It must work like this:
Step 1) Load template into QTextEdit
Step 2) Find every macros (like "{text}"), replace all of them with some text containers (frames or text blocks or something else)
Step 3) Use text containers from step 2 to quickly insert/modify text in areas where were macroses
For step 2 I choose QTextFrame. So please take a look at the code:
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// pTextEdit is pointer to my QTextEdit instance
QString sTemplate = "<table border='1'><tr><td>{text}</td></tr></table>";
pTextEdit->setHtml(sTemplate);
if (pTextEdit->find("{text}"))
{
QTextFrameFormat FrameMft;
FrameMft.setBackground( QBrush(Qt::yellow) );
FrameMft.setBorder(0.0);
FrameMft.setBorderStyle(QTextFrameFormat::BorderStyle_None);
FrameMft.setMargin(0);
FrameMft.setPadding(0);

auto Cursor = pTextEdit->textCursor();
Cursor.removeSelectedText();
auto* pFrame = Cursor.insertFrame( FrameMft );

auto FrameCursor = pFrame->firstCursorPosition();
FrameCursor.insertText("Hello QTextFrame");
}
@

For some reason QTextEdit adds two empty lines around QTextFrame - one before and one after. Please help me to find a way to insert text frames without empty lines or suggest something to achieve my goal without text frames (and without external libraries).

Qt version = 5.1

YuriQ

I found that QTextBlock works almost as good as I want.
Algorithm:

Find macro
Remove selected text
Remember current block
Use block from step 3

rst256

bq. For some reason QTextEdit adds two empty lines around QTextFrame – one before and one after.bq.
Manual don't read?
Each frame contains at least one text block to enable text cursors to insert new document elements within.

SGaist

Since you want to use templates why not make use of something like "plustache":https://github.com/mrtazz/plustache ? Could make things easier

rst256

actually of a standard text editor and beckon to use it for other purposes.
if it is finalized api custom format to turn a very serious engine for templates ranging from documents to source.