[SOLVED] Edit Value of a QDomElement?

Edit Value of a QDomElement?

I need to edit the text of a QDomElement - Eg

I have an XML file with its content as -

<root>    
    <firstchild>Edit text here</firstchild>
</root>

How do I edit the text of the child element <firstchild>?

I don't see any functions in the QDomElement of QDomDocument classes descriptions provided in Qt 4.7

Edit1 - I am adding more details.

I need to read, modify and save an xml file. To format of the file is as below -

<root>    
    <firstchild>Edit text here</firstchild>
</root>

The value of element needs to be edited.I code to read the xml file is -

QFile xmlFile(".\\iWantToEdit.xml");
xmlFile.open(QIODevice::ReadWrite);

QByteArray xmlData(xmlFile.readAll());

QDomDocument doc;
doc.setContent(xmlData);

// Read necessary values

// write back modified values?

Note: I have tried to cast a QDomElement to QDomNode and use the function setNodeValue(). It however is not applicable to QDomElement.

Any suggestions, code samples, links would we greatly welcome.

Solution

This will do what you want (the code you posted will stay as is):

// Get element in question
QDomElement root = doc.documentElement();
QDomElement nodeTag = root.firstChildElement("firstchild");

// create a new node with a QDomText child
QDomElement newNodeTag = doc.createElement(QString("firstchild")); 
QDomText newNodeText = doc.createTextNode(QString("New Text"));
newNodeTag.appendChild(newNodeText);

// replace existing node with new node
root.replaceChild(newNodeTag, nodeTag);

// Write changes to same file
xmlFile.resize(0);
QTextStream stream;
stream.setDevice(&xmlFile);
doc.save(stream, 4);

xmlFile.close();

... and you are all set. You could of course write to a different file as well. In this example I just truncated the existing file and overwrote it.