How to get Text value of a QDomElement ? (noob question)

[BillGates]

Hi,
say I have QDomElement containing :

<text:p>
       etc etc etc etc, 
<text:s/>
       blablabla bla bla bla bla bla
</text:p>

<text:p>
       etc etc etc etc, 
<text:s/>
       blablabla bla bla bla bla bla
</text:p>

To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode 

How do i get the string "etc etc etc etc, <text:s/> blablabla bla bla bla bla bla" ?
I tried .totext().data() but it doesnt appear to work.

What is the proper course of action ?

[BillGates]

Well, so i made a function to parse element, wish there was an more handy way, but such is life.

[aamer4yu]

The above code is not valid.
You cannot have <> as text. You will need to use CDATA..

[_Stefan]

If you browse through a QDomElement, you can use ::tagName() to get the name between < and >.
If you need the value of the tag, so the text between <tag> your text here </tag>, you can just use the ::text() method of QDomElement.

As easy as that

[wysota]

Iterate over all child nodes, use QDomNode::save() to save each of them to a string. Then concatenate all strings you received and you're done. Or don't use DOM but rather some smarter approach

[BillGates]

Thanks all for replying,

Wysota, i am curious as to what you mean by smarter approach . And thanks for suggesting ::save(), i wasnt aware of it, this is primarily why i asked here on the forum, in hope of someone suggesting some functions i wasnt aware of. Qt is big! But it doesnt feel bloated at all (to me).

have a nice day

[wysota]

Wysota, i am curious as to what you mean by smarter approach

QXmlStreamReader