Native Development

[neilhogg69]

Hello

Is there a way to parse XML in a QString? All the examples on the web shows how to parse the xml from file but none of them shows how to parse XML from a QString. I have a server that my app connects to via TCP/IP and the server then sends XML to the client (app) that needs to be parsed, it will be a waste of resources to first write the xml to a file.

I have the basic sax parser and my implementation looks like this

XMLHandler *m_handler;

QXmlInputSource *source = new QXmlInputSource(new QFile("asset:///responseMessage.xml"));

QXmlSimpleReader reader;
reader.setContentHandler(m_handler);

reader.parse(source);

How do i change this line

QXmlInputSource *source = new QXmlInputSource(new QFile("asset:///responseMessage.xml"));

to use a string as input and not a file? I know the QXmlInputSource class does not support a string implementation so is there another approach in the API that i can use?

Thank you for any advice!

[jheron]

Perhaps QRegExp is what your looking for? Here is a brief example in case it may help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3582039/parse-and-remove-part-of-a-qstring

Good luck!

Jon

[neilhogg69]

Hi Jon

Thanks for the reply. I think that could definitely work (although it would be rather tedious), I just wanted to use XML parsing standars to do this (as you can do this in the older java blackberry sdk). I think that I will go with that method if I cannot find a solution that uses the xml standards.

[borceg]

Maybe this is too inefficient, but saving the response from server to new QFile("xxxxx.xml") and loading this file into the parser will do the job. I know it's poor choice.

[neilhogg69 · Accepted solution]

I found the solution. I changed my class rather to use a QXmlStreamReader. This can accept QByteArray values in its constructor so i just called the QString toAscii method to convert the string recieved from my server to a QByteArray and passed it to the QXmlStreamReader. This implementation didn't require major changes to my handler so i think this will work the best for my situation. Thanks for all the help guys.