[PyQt] Kind of newbie question about reading XML file

[Gustavo A. Díaz]

Hi,

Maybe in a future, but I use this XML in many places on my app... and i dont
have right now time for changing the code... Since i write and i read that
file.

Thanks anyway...

2008/12/5 Detlev Offenbach <detlev at die-offenbachs.de>

> Hi,
>
> why not use the SAX based interface? I find the SAX approach easier to
> understand and to implement.
>
> Regards,
> Detlev
>
> On Freitag, 5. Dezember 2008, Gustavo A. Díaz wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I am facing a problem when how to read a XML with tags, and sub tags.
> Like
> > for example:
> >
> > <FirstTag>
> >     <SecondTag>
> >         <data1>text</data1>
> >         <data2<text</data2>
> >     </SecondTag>
> > <FristTag>
> >
> > The thing is that before I was  using just one tag like:
> >
> > <FirstTag>
> >     <data1>text</data1>
> >     <data2<text</data2>
> > <FristTag>
> >
> > and I've found examples (of course in Qt docs) of how to achieve the
> > reading of this example of XML. But now i don't know how. And most cause
> i
> > am still newbie, and more working with XML files.
> >
> > So, my old code is:
> >
> > self.file = QFile(PREFERENCES_FILE)
> > self.file.open(QIODevice.ReadOnly)
> > self.doc = QDomDocument("OpenCoffee")
> > self.doc.setContent(self.file)
> > self.file.close()
> >
> > self.docElem = self.doc.documentElement()
> >         self.node = self.docElem.firstChild()
> >
> >         while (self.node.isNull() == False):
> >             self.element = self.node.toElement()
> >
> >             if (self.element.isNull() == False):
> >                 if (self.element.tagName().contains("systemTray")):....
> etc
> > etc.
> >
> > But of course this will not work now, since i have to read trwo 2 tags
> > before searching the elements inside them.
> > Can someone give my a hand on this? i've droped this part of the code in
> my
> > app since i dont find any usefull clear example of how to do it.
> >
> > Ataching my XML file.
> >
> > Thanks a Lot.
>
>
>
> --
> Detlev Offenbach
> detlev at die-offenbachs.de
>



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