writing raw data into xml sub-node

[elcuco]

(continuing http://www.qtcentre.org/threads/6000...-and-sub-nodes )

I am using QXmlStreamWriter, and under some conditions I need to write into a node, a text that contains raw xml, not encoded.

QString b = "<b>test 1 2 3 </b>";
QXmlStreamWriter stream(&output);
stream.writeStartDocument();
stream.writeStartElement("a");
stream.writeCharacters(b);
stream.writeEndElement();
stream.writeEndDocument();
stream.close();

QString b = "<b>test 1 2 3 </b>";
QXmlStreamWriter stream(&output);
stream.writeStartDocument();
stream.writeStartElement("a");
stream.writeCharacters(b);
stream.writeEndElement();
stream.writeEndDocument();
stream.close();

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In this example, "b" gets encoded into XML, which is usually desired, but not in this case.

One solution I have is to write the XML manually as a text file. This will work, but I feel this is ugly.

What other alternatives to I have?