[Qgis-developer] QtXml is no longer maintained in Qt5

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Matthias

>It will be a reasonably big undertaking to migrate any occurrence of
> QDomDocument etc. to QXMLStreamWriter and QXMLStreamReader


 From a quick look, it seems QXMLStreamReader is more like a SAX parser. 
If so, it is not a full replacement for the DOM classes.

Regards,
Marco

On 03.12.2014 16:12, Matthias Kuhn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As of Qt5, QtXml is no longer actively maintained [1]
> PyQt5 does not even support it.
>
> It will be a reasonably big undertaking to migrate any occurrence of
> QDomDocument etc. to QXMLStreamWriter and QXMLStreamReader (our whole
> project saving and loading engine is based on this). And when we do this
> we will likely have to increase the major version number of QGIS.
>
> In order not to introduce more work, please consider using
> QXMLStreamWriter and QXMLStreamReader for new code you write that
> involves parsing or producing XML. That does not concern working on code
> that is based on code that is currently based on QtXml methods.
>
> Thank you,
> Matthias
>
> [1] http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5/qtxml-module.html#details
>
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