[Qgis-user] KML CDATA to attributes

[Jorge Tornero - Listas]

Good morning everybody,

I'm importing KML files with points which contains valuable information 
within ![[CDATA] fields. Is there any simple way to parse/extract 
information from CDATA to attributes when importing the KML into QGIS?

For instance, each of the points inside the KML is:

<Placemark>
             <description><![CDATA[<b>Date: </b>6/4/2014   21:36:57<br 
/><b>Latitude </b>N36º31'56"<br /><b>Longitude </b>W6º16'55"<br 
/><b>Speed: </b>0 Knots<br /><b>Bearing: </b>270.2º<br />]]></description>
             <styleUrl>#iconStyle0</styleUrl>
             <Point>
<coordinates>-6.28206,36.53234</coordinates>
             </Point>
         </Placemark>

And what would be desirable is to get a vector layer with the attributes:

Date
Latitude
Longitude
Speed
Bearing

I guess it is pretty difficult to do, mostly because CDATA can carry 
anything inside, but maybe someone of you has faced this before.

All the best

Jorge Tornero