How to escape special character from QXmlStreamWriter?

[lni]

Hi,

I need to output an xml with <a href="...">

But QXmlStreamWriter change it to

&lt;a href=&quot;...&quot;&gt;

Is there a way to escape those characters?

Thanks!

PS. In fact I am using QXmlStreamWriter to generate an html file....

[ChrisW67]

Yes, by using QXmlWriter to write the markup for you... Rather than trying to treat it as a dumb stream.

QXmlStreamWriter w;
...
w.writeStartElement("a");
w.writeAtrribute("href", "http://www.qtcentre.org");
w.writeCharacters("Qt Centre");
w.writeEndElement();

QXmlStreamWriter w;
...
w.writeStartElement("a");
w.writeAtrribute("href", "http://www.qtcentre.org");
w.writeCharacters("Qt Centre");
w.writeEndElement();

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[lni]

The string is passed in. Do I have to wake through each char in the string?

This is the pseudo-code, where text contains "<", ">", """...

void foo( const QString& text )
{
 
  /// writer is somewhere
  writer.writeCharacters( text );
 
}

void foo( const QString& text )
{

  /// writer is somewhere
  writer.writeCharacters( text );

}

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[thidalgo]

Use the contained device object on the xmlwriter object to write the string(text) converting it to a byte array.

The text is written whithout scaping any characters.

w.writeStartElement("Value");
w.writeCharacters("");
w.device()->write(text.toByteArray());
w.writeEndElement();

w.writeStartElement("Value");
w.writeCharacters("");
w.device()->write(text.toByteArray());
w.writeEndElement();

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