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# QXmlSimpleReader Class

The QXmlSimpleReader class provides an implementation of a simple XML parser. More...

Header: | `#include <QXmlSimpleReader>`
CMake: | `find_package(Qt6 REQUIRED COMPONENTS Core5Compat)` `target_link_libraries(mytarget PRIVATE Qt6::Core5Compat)`
qmake: | `QT += core5compat`
Inherits: | QXmlReader

- List of all members, including inherited members

Warning: This class is not reentrant.

## Public Functions

| QXmlSimpleReader()
virtual | ~QXmlSimpleReader()
virtual bool | parse(const QXmlInputSource *input, bool incremental)
virtual bool | parseContinue()

## Reimplemented Public Functions

virtual QXmlDTDHandler * | DTDHandler() const override
virtual QXmlContentHandler * | contentHandler() const override
virtual QXmlDeclHandler * | declHandler() const override
virtual QXmlEntityResolver * | entityResolver() const override
virtual QXmlErrorHandler * | errorHandler() const override
virtual bool | feature(const QString &name, bool *ok = nullptr) const override
virtual bool | hasFeature(const QString &name) const override
virtual bool | hasProperty(const QString &name) const override
virtual QXmlLexicalHandler * | lexicalHandler() const override
virtual bool | parse(const QXmlInputSource &input) override
virtual bool | parse(const QXmlInputSource *input) override
virtual void * | property(const QString &name, bool *ok = nullptr) const override
virtual void | setContentHandler(QXmlContentHandler *handler) override
virtual void | setDTDHandler(QXmlDTDHandler *handler) override
virtual void | setDeclHandler(QXmlDeclHandler *handler) override
virtual void | setEntityResolver(QXmlEntityResolver *handler) override
virtual void | setErrorHandler(QXmlErrorHandler *handler) override
virtual void | setFeature(const QString &name, bool enable) override
virtual void | setLexicalHandler(QXmlLexicalHandler *handler) override
virtual void | setProperty(const QString &name, void *value) override

## Detailed Description

This XML reader is suitable for a wide range of applications. It is able to parse well-formed XML and can report the namespaces of elements to a content handler; however, it does not parse any external entities. For historical reasons, Attribute Value Normalization and End-of-Line Handling as described in the XML 1.0 specification is not performed.

The easiest pattern of use for this class is to create a reader instance, define an input source, specify the handlers to be used by the reader, and parse the data.

For example, we could use a QFile to supply the input. Here, we create a reader, and define an input source to be used by the reader:

         QXmlSimpleReader xmlReader;
         QXmlInputSource *source = new QXmlInputSource(file);

A handler lets us perform actions when the reader encounters certain types of content, or if errors in the input are found. The reader must be told which handler to use for each type of event. For many common applications, we can create a custom handler by subclassing QXmlDefaultHandler, and use this to handle both error and content events:

         Handler *handler = new Handler;
         xmlReader.setContentHandler(handler);
         xmlReader.setErrorHandler(handler);

If you don't set at least the content and error handlers, the parser will fall back on its default behavior—and will do nothing.

The most convenient way to handle the input is to read it in a single pass using the parse() function with an argument that specifies the input source:

         bool ok = xmlReader.parse(source);

         if (!ok)
             std::cout << "Parsing failed." << std::endl;

If you can't parse the entire input in one go (for example, it is huge, or is being delivered over a network connection), data can be fed to the parser in pieces. This is achieved by telling parse() to work incrementally, and making subsequent calls to the parseContinue() function, until all the data has been processed.

A common way to perform incremental parsing is to connect the `readyRead()` signal of a network reply a slot, and handle the incoming data there. See QNetworkAccessManager.

Aspects of the parsing behavior can be adapted using setFeature() and setProperty().

     xmlReader.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes", true);

QXmlSimpleReader is not reentrant. If you want to use the class in threaded code, lock the code using QXmlSimpleReader with a locking mechanism, such as a QMutex.

Note that this class is now deprecated, please use QXmlStreamReader or QDomDocument for reading XML files.

## Member Function Documentation

### QXmlSimpleReader::QXmlSimpleReader()

Constructs a simple XML reader.

### `[virtual noexcept]` QXmlSimpleReader::~QXmlSimpleReader()

Destroys the simple XML reader.

### `[override virtual]` QXmlDTDHandler *QXmlSimpleReader::DTDHandler() const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::DTDHandler() const.

See also setDTDHandler().

### `[override virtual]` QXmlContentHandler *QXmlSimpleReader::contentHandler() const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::contentHandler() const.

See also setContentHandler().

### `[override virtual]` QXmlDeclHandler *QXmlSimpleReader::declHandler() const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::declHandler() const.

See also setDeclHandler().

### `[override virtual]` QXmlEntityResolver *QXmlSimpleReader::entityResolver() const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::entityResolver() const.

See also setEntityResolver().

### `[override virtual]` QXmlErrorHandler *QXmlSimpleReader::errorHandler() const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::errorHandler() const.

See also setErrorHandler().

### `[override virtual]` bool QXmlSimpleReader::feature(const QString &name, bool *ok = nullptr) const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::feature(const QString &name, bool *ok) const.

See also setFeature().

### `[override virtual]` bool QXmlSimpleReader::hasFeature(const QString &name) const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::hasFeature(const QString &name) const.

### `[override virtual]` bool QXmlSimpleReader::hasProperty(const QString &name) const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::hasProperty(const QString &name) const.

### `[override virtual]` QXmlLexicalHandler *QXmlSimpleReader::lexicalHandler() const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::lexicalHandler() const.

See also setLexicalHandler().

### `[override virtual]` bool QXmlSimpleReader::parse(const QXmlInputSource &input)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::parse(const QXmlInputSource &input).

### `[override virtual]` bool QXmlSimpleReader::parse(const QXmlInputSource *input)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::parse(const QXmlInputSource *input).

Reads an XML document from input and parses it in one pass (non-incrementally). Returns `true` if the parsing was successful; otherwise returns `false`.

### `[virtual]` bool QXmlSimpleReader::parse(const QXmlInputSource *input, bool incremental)

Reads an XML document from input and parses it. Returns `true` if the parsing is completed successfully; otherwise returns `false`, indicating that an error occurred.

If incremental is false, this function will return false if the XML file is not read completely. The parsing cannot be continued in this case.

If incremental is true, the parser does not return false if it reaches the end of the input before reaching the end of the XML file. Instead, it stores the state of the parser so that parsing can be continued later when more data is available. In such a case, you can use the function parseContinue() to continue with parsing. This class stores a pointer to the input source input and the parseContinue() function tries to read from that input source. Therefore, you should not delete the input source input until you no longer need to call parseContinue().

If this function is called with incremental set to true while an incremental parse is in progress, a new parsing session will be started, and the previous session will be lost.

See also parseContinue() and QTcpSocket.

### `[virtual]` bool QXmlSimpleReader::parseContinue()

Continues incremental parsing, taking input from the QXmlInputSource that was specified with the most recent call to parse(). To use this function, you must have called parse() with the incremental argument set to true.

Returns `false` if a parsing error occurs; otherwise returns `true`, even if the end of the XML file has not been reached. You can continue parsing at a later stage by calling this function again when there is more data available to parse.

Calling this function when there is no data available in the input source indicates to the reader that the end of the XML file has been reached. If the input supplied up to this point was not well-formed then a parsing error occurs, and false is returned. If the input supplied was well-formed, true is returned. It is important to end the input in this way because it allows you to reuse the reader to parse other XML files.

Calling this function after the end of file has been reached, but without available data will cause false to be returned whether the previous input was well-formed or not.

See also parse(), QXmlInputSource::data(), and QXmlInputSource::next().

### `[override virtual]` void *QXmlSimpleReader::property(const QString &name, bool *ok = nullptr) const

Reimplements: QXmlReader::property(const QString &name, bool *ok) const.

See also setProperty().

### `[override virtual]` void QXmlSimpleReader::setContentHandler(QXmlContentHandler *handler)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::setContentHandler(QXmlContentHandler *handler).

See also contentHandler().

### `[override virtual]` void QXmlSimpleReader::setDTDHandler(QXmlDTDHandler *handler)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::setDTDHandler(QXmlDTDHandler *handler).

### `[override virtual]` void QXmlSimpleReader::setDeclHandler(QXmlDeclHandler *handler)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::setDeclHandler(QXmlDeclHandler *handler).

See also declHandler().

### `[override virtual]` void QXmlSimpleReader::setEntityResolver(QXmlEntityResolver *handler)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::setEntityResolver(QXmlEntityResolver *handler).

See also entityResolver().

### `[override virtual]` void QXmlSimpleReader::setErrorHandler(QXmlErrorHandler *handler)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::setErrorHandler(QXmlErrorHandler *handler).

See also errorHandler().

### `[override virtual]` void QXmlSimpleReader::setFeature(const QString &name, bool enable)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::setFeature(const QString &name, bool value).

Turns on the feature name if enable is true; otherwise turns it off.

The name parameter must be one of the following strings:

Feature | Default | Notes
--- | --- | ---
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces | true | If enabled, namespaces are reported to the content handler.
http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes | false | If enabled, the original prefixed names and attributes used for namespace declarations are reported.
http://qt-project.org/xml/features/report-whitespace-only-CharData | true | If enabled, CharData that consist of only whitespace characters are reported using QXmlContentHandler::characters(). If disabled, whitespace is silently discarded.
http://qt-project.org/xml/features/report-start-end-entity | false | If enabled, the parser reports QXmlContentHandler::startEntity() and QXmlContentHandler::endEntity() events, so character data might be reported in chunks. If disabled, the parser does not report these events, but silently substitutes the entities, and reports the character data in one chunk.

See also feature() and hasFeature().

### `[override virtual]` void QXmlSimpleReader::setLexicalHandler(QXmlLexicalHandler *handler)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::setLexicalHandler(QXmlLexicalHandler *handler).

See also lexicalHandler().

### `[override virtual]` void QXmlSimpleReader::setProperty(const QString &name, void *value)

Reimplements: QXmlReader::setProperty(const QString &name, void *value).

See also property().