issue with QXmlStreamWriter

mzimmers

I'm using QXmlStreamWriter to write to a QString object.

The device I'm communicating with doesn't fully adhere to XML standards; the starting tag must be simply "<XML>". This wouldn't seem like a big deal, except that I can't use writeCharacters() because it escapes the angle brackets. I can use writeStartElement("XML") but this gives me "<XML" (unclosed).

I can use writeStartElement("XML>") and this works, but strikes me as somewhat hokey.

As an alternative, I suppose I could fully form the string, then edit out the stuff I can't have in the header.

Any other opinions on this? Getting the format of the XML changed isn't an option.

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Hi! Little hackish, too, but seems to work:

#include <QApplication>
#include <QDebug>
#include <QXmlStreamWriter>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);

    QString output;
    output += "<XML>";

    QXmlStreamWriter stream(&output);
    stream.setAutoFormatting(true);
    stream.writeStartElement("bookmark");
    stream.writeAttribute("href", "http://qt-project.org/");
    stream.writeTextElement("title", "Qt Project");
    stream.writeEndElement(); // bookmark
    stream.writeEndDocument();

    qDebug() << output;

    return 0;
}

hskoglund

Hi, I had more or less the same problem (receiving XML from Microsoft's IIS6 with way too much stuff), solved it by using XPath to strip away the junk. Perhaps you can use XPath as well to reformat your XML file, it's here

mzimmers

Yeah, that's probably a better approach than mine, as it keeps the "<>" characters out of the stream handling. Thanks.

mzimmers

@hskoglund that's probably a more correct way of doing it, but for simplicity's sake, I'm going to use Wieland's approach.