[Qgis-developer] QtXml is no longer maintained in Qt5

[Luca Manganelli]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:04 AM, G. Allegri <giohappy at gmail.com> wrote:
> QtXml is really, damn slow. PyQt with QtXml is worst then lxml, just to make
> a comparison. Switching to a streamlined xml parser would be advisable, but
> I know it would a deep refactoring for a lot of QGIS's code.
> Maybe it should be considered within the next big refactorings (geometry,
> composer, etc.), but it won't be easy to find a sponsor specifically for
> this...

For a project at my organization, I used the standard python module
"XML.ElementTree" and it seems really good and fast. It's very easy to
read, modify, add elements...