Re: [xml] Getting the offset of a node in the stream

[Alberto Mardegan <mardy tardi gmail com>]

Michael Ludwig wrote:
> Alberto Mardegan schrieb:
>
> >   I'm using an xmlTextReader (and the xmlTextReaderNext() function) to
> > read an XML file, and once I find a specific element I must be able to
> > tell at what byte offset in the file this element is found.
[...]
> Second, do you really have to take such a low-low-low-level approach?
> That might well be that case; but if not, there might be easier ways to
> solve the problem.

It's soon explained: I'm writing a C library that needs to parse some XML files 
(only part of them, till it finds a certain element), and a Qt wrapper for the 
same library. The wrapper library doesn't need to parse the initial part of the 
document, but only from the same element where the C library stopped parsing.

If there was a way to create a QXmlStreamReader wrapping the xmlTextReader, than 
that would be the best, because then the state could be retained; but it seems 
to me that there isn't.

In short, I'd like to avoid to parse the initial part of the XML file twice.

Any hints?

Ciao,
  Alberto