XML has become one of the most popular standards that is used to store hierarchical data. Despite its verbosity and difficulty to read by human eye, it is used in virtually any domain where data persistency is required, as it is very easy to read by machines. Qt provides support for reading and writing XML documents in two modules:
- The Qt Xml module provides access using the Document Object Model (DOM) standard with classes such as QDomDocument, QDomElement, and others
- The Qt Core module contains QXmlStreamReader and QXmlStreamWriter classes that implement streaming API
One of the downsides of QDomDocument is that it requires us to load the whole XML tree into the memory before parsing it. Additionally, Qt Xml is not actively ...
