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Asked: 2026-06-14T02:05:17+00:00

I try to parse XML file which contains a attribute tag like this: a=(USA

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I try to parse XML file which contains a attribute tag like this: 

a="(USA & CANADA)"

But i found out that it isn’t well-formed XML because the”&” should be URL-encoded (&)

Is there a way to tell QDom to ignore the invalid text to parse the file anyway? Because i can’t just fix all XML-files.

I’d greatly appreciate any solutions to this problem.

EDIT: I figured out that there is a function setInvalidDataPolicy(AcceptInvalidChars) but either this doesn’t work when using setContent() for the QDomDocument or I’m just using it the wrong way…

QDomDocument xmlcontent;
QDomImplementation impl;
impl.setInvalidDataPolicy(QDomImplementation::AcceptInvalidChars);
QFile XMLContentFile(pathString);
xmlcontent.setContent(&XMLContentFile)

Anyone any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I worked my way around the problem.
    I now parse the XML file using QXmlStreamReader and when it raises an error I start a own function to fix the XML file. Then a restart my parse routine.
    This does the job and I couldn’t find a better way to achieve this.

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