Having trouble with direct child nodes using QtXml

[aamer4yu]

From the docs :

QDomNodeList QDomElement::elementsByTagName ( const QString & tagname ) const
Returns a QDomNodeList containing all descendent elements of this element that are called tagname. The order they are in the node list is the order they are encountered in a preorder traversal of the element tree.

so the behaviour of elementsByTagName in ur code is justified.

As for the childNodes(), Are you sure you were on the <Container name="L1Container" autoAdd="true"> tag when you used the childNodes() function ??

Thirdly... what is iChild in your code ? How are you assigning value to it ??

[thelackey3326]

I see your point about elementsByTagName. Must've glossed over that when I read it earlier. iChild has a comment next to it describing what it is and where it's from, but in fact it was related to a bug I found in my code, so it no longer exists.

The way I was processing the children of both a <Container> and an <Element> was to get their child nodes (actually in the case of the <Element>, it was the children of <Children>) with childNodes() and parse each in a for loop.

What I've now done, thanks to an example from a work acquaintance, is grab the firstChildElement() and use something similar to:

QDomElement iChild = iParent.firstChildElement();
while (!iChild.isNull())
{
    parseFunction(iChild);
    iChild = iChild.nextSiblingElement();
}

QDomElement iChild = iParent.firstChildElement();
while (!iChild.isNull())
{
    parseFunction(iChild);
    iChild = iChild.nextSiblingElement();
}

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Strangly enough, I had used this method before with TinyXML in a school project a while back but it didn't hit me until I saw it in an example. But, it is now working and I'm on to other things.

Thanks for the reply!