static QMap doesn't seem to remain static (or at least keeps becoming empty)

[ReilenBlaeyze]

I'm trying to get my app in development to load a bunch of static data on startup, for which i'm using a namespaced static QMap, but every time I call on the contents of it it turns out to be empty.

This is in the main file:

void kreator::loadData() {
	QString filename;
	//QFile xmlFile;
 
	// load natures;
	ExaltedData::NatureParser parsenat = ExaltedData::NatureParser();
	//filename = locate("data", "natures.xml");
	filename="/home/shadow/project/kreator/src/data/natures.xml";
	QFile xmlFile(filename);
	QXmlInputSource source(&xmlFile);
	QXmlSimpleReader reader;
 
	reader.setContentHandler( &parsenat );
	if (!reader.parse(source)) {
		KMessageBox::error(this,("Parse error in natures.xml\n"+parsenat.errorString() + "\nElement Count=")+QString::number(parsenat.count));
	};
 
}

void kreator::loadData() {
	QString filename;
	//QFile xmlFile;

	// load natures;
	ExaltedData::NatureParser parsenat = ExaltedData::NatureParser();
	//filename = locate("data", "natures.xml");
	filename="/home/shadow/project/kreator/src/data/natures.xml";
	QFile xmlFile(filename);
	QXmlInputSource source(&xmlFile);
	QXmlSimpleReader reader;
	
	reader.setContentHandler( &parsenat );
	if (!reader.parse(source)) {
		KMessageBox::error(this,("Parse error in natures.xml\n"+parsenat.errorString() + "\nElement Count=")+QString::number(parsenat.count));
	};

}

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and in the header of the data namespace I have

namespace ExaltedData {
 
static QMap<QString,NatureData> natures;
 
}

namespace ExaltedData {

static QMap<QString,NatureData> natures;

}

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I've verified that the parse works correctly and during the parse natures has 21 elements, but when I reference it again later it's got 0 elements again.

Anyone able to tell me what I'm doing wrong?