How to use XML source as a data type, not a list model?

[fool]

Many times XML source we got is more like a single data type, like this:
@<user>
<name>fool</name>
<age>18</age>
</user>@

But XmlListModel is used for XML source which is a collection of data types:
@<users>
<user>
<name>fool</name>
<age>18</age>
</user>
<user>
<name>fool2</name>
<age>19</age>
</user>
</users>@

XmlListModel is great for representing data collections, but is there a XmlData like this:
@XmlData {
id: data
source: "http://www.mysite.com/user.xml"

 XmlRole { name: "name"; query: "name/string()" }
 XmlRole { name: "age"; query: "age/int()" }

}@

So I can use it like a normal object:
@Text {
text: data.name
}@

Is there a solution for this in QML? I know I can use a C++ object to do it, but it requires quite a lot of work and is less clean.

[mbrasser]

Hi,

There isn't an element like this yet, but it is one we'd like to add. For reference, the task for this is "QTBUG-12953":http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-12953.

As a workaround, you may be able to use XmlListModel with "get":http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qml-xmllistmodel.html#get-method to work with the data as though it were a "list of one element".

Regards,
Michael