QDomElement's text() for <element> </element> giving me a empty Qstring

[CirqueForge]

QDomElement::text() will return a QString that will contain 6 spaces if your element contains 6 spaces.

It doesn't if the node is just whitespace. It will just return an empty Qstring. That's the entire problem and hence, why I'm asking if there's another way to get text from the element using either other classes or doing it manually.

Edit: Do you mean to say that when I read it using a QXMLSimpleReader, QDomElement::text() will return the whitespace nodes correctly?

[norobro]

Do you mean to say that when I read it using a QXMLSimpleReader, QDomElement::text() will return the whitespace nodes correctly?

Bingo.

Modified simple program:

#include <QDomDocument>
#include <QXmlSimpleReader>
#include <QDebug>
 
int main(){
    QString xmlString("<original>      </original>");
    QDomDocument doc;
    doc.setContent(xmlString);
    QDomElement docElem = doc.documentElement();
    qDebug() << "Without QXmlSimpleReader \t- element contains" <<docElem.text() << "\tlength="<< docElem.text().length();
    doc.clear();
    QXmlInputSource source;
    source.setData(xmlString);
    QXmlSimpleReader reader;
    doc.setContent(&source, &reader);
    docElem = doc.documentElement();
    qDebug() << "With QXmlSimpleReader \t- element contains" <<docElem.text() << "\tlength="<< docElem.text().length();
}
 
//Output:
//Without QXmlSimpleReader 	- element contains "" 	        length= 0 
//With QXmlSimpleReader 	- element contains "      " 	length= 6

#include <QDomDocument>
#include <QXmlSimpleReader>
#include <QDebug>

int main(){
    QString xmlString("<original>      </original>");
    QDomDocument doc;
    doc.setContent(xmlString);
    QDomElement docElem = doc.documentElement();
    qDebug() << "Without QXmlSimpleReader \t- element contains" <<docElem.text() << "\tlength="<< docElem.text().length();
    doc.clear();
    QXmlInputSource source;
    source.setData(xmlString);
    QXmlSimpleReader reader;
    doc.setContent(&source, &reader);
    docElem = doc.documentElement();
    qDebug() << "With QXmlSimpleReader \t- element contains" <<docElem.text() << "\tlength="<< docElem.text().length();
}

//Output:
//Without QXmlSimpleReader 	- element contains "" 	        length= 0 
//With QXmlSimpleReader 	- element contains "      " 	length= 6

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[CirqueForge]

Bingo.

Modified simple program:

#include <QDomDocument>
#include <QXmlSimpleReader>
#include <QDebug>
 
int main(){
    QString xmlString("<original>      </original>");
    QDomDocument doc;
    doc.setContent(xmlString);
    QDomElement docElem = doc.documentElement();
    qDebug() << "Without QXmlSimpleReader \t- element contains" <<docElem.text() << "\tlength="<< docElem.text().length();
    doc.clear();
    QXmlInputSource source;
    source.setData(xmlString);
    QXmlSimpleReader reader;
    doc.setContent(&source, &reader);
    docElem = doc.documentElement();
    qDebug() << "With QXmlSimpleReader \t- element contains" <<docElem.text() << "\tlength="<< docElem.text().length();
}
 
//Output:
//Without QXmlSimpleReader 	- element contains "" 	        length= 0 
//With QXmlSimpleReader 	- element contains "      " 	length= 6

#include <QDomDocument>
#include <QXmlSimpleReader>
#include <QDebug>

int main(){
    QString xmlString("<original>      </original>");
    QDomDocument doc;
    doc.setContent(xmlString);
    QDomElement docElem = doc.documentElement();
    qDebug() << "Without QXmlSimpleReader \t- element contains" <<docElem.text() << "\tlength="<< docElem.text().length();
    doc.clear();
    QXmlInputSource source;
    source.setData(xmlString);
    QXmlSimpleReader reader;
    doc.setContent(&source, &reader);
    docElem = doc.documentElement();
    qDebug() << "With QXmlSimpleReader \t- element contains" <<docElem.text() << "\tlength="<< docElem.text().length();
}

//Output:
//Without QXmlSimpleReader 	- element contains "" 	        length= 0 
//With QXmlSimpleReader 	- element contains "      " 	length= 6

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Yeah, I was able to get it to work correctly after doing so. Thank you for your help.