Move simple dom model example to manual test
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// Copyright (C) 2016 The Qt Company Ltd.
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// SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-Qt-Commercial OR GFDL-1.3-no-invariants-only
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/*!
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\example itemviews/simpledommodel
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\title Simple DOM Model Example
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\ingroup examples-itemviews
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\brief The Simple DOM Model example shows how an existing class can be adapted for use with
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the model/view framework.
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\image simpledommodel-example.png
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Qt provides two complementary sets of classes for reading XML files: The classes based
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around QXmlReader provide a SAX-style API for incremental reading of large files, and
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the classes based around QDomDocument enable developers to access the contents of XML
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files using a Document Object Model (DOM) API.
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In this example, we create a model that uses the DOM API to expose the structure and
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contents of XML documents to views via the standard QAbstractModel interface.
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\section1 Design and Concepts
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Reading an XML document with Qt's DOM classes is a straightforward process. Typically,
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the contents of a file are supplied to QDomDocument, and nodes are accessed using the
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functions provided by QDomNode and its subclasses.
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\omit
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For example, the following code
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snippet reads the contents of a file into a QDomDocument object and traverses the
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document, reading all the plain text that can be found:
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\snippet doc/src/snippets/code/doc_src_examples_simpledommodel.cpp 0
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In principle, the functions provided by QDomNode can be used to navigate from any
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given starting point in a document to the piece of data requested by another component.
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Since QDomDocument maintains information about the structure of a document, we can
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use this to implement the required virtual functions in a QAbstractItemModel subclass.
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\endomit
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The aim is to use the structure provided by QDomDocument by wrapping QDomNode objects
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in item objects similar to the \c TreeItem objects used in the
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\l{Simple Tree Model Example}{Simple Tree Model} example.
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\section1 DomModel Class Definition
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Let us begin by examining the \c DomModel class:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.h 0
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The class definition contains all the basic functions that are needed for a
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read-only model. Only the constructor and \c document() function are specific to
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this model. The private \c domDocument variable is used to hold the document
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that is exposed by the model; the \c rootItem variable contains a pointer to
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the root item in the model.
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\section1 DomItem Class Definition
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The \c DomItem class is used to hold information about a specific QDomNode in
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the document:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/domitem.h 0
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Each \c DomItem provides a wrapper for a QDomNode obtained from the underlying
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document which contains a reference to the node, it's location in the parent node's
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list of child nodes, and a pointer to a parent wrapper item.
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The \c parent(), \c child(), and \c row() functions are convenience functions for
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the \c DomModel to use that provide basic information about the item to be discovered
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quickly. The node() function provides access to the underlying QDomNode object.
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As well as the information supplied in the constructor, the class maintains a cache
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of information about any child items. This is used to provide a collection of
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persistent item objects that the model can identify consistently and improve the
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performance of the model when accessing child items.
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\section1 DomItem Class Implementation
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Since the \c DomItem class is only a thin wrapper around QDomNode objects, with a
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few additional features to help improve performance and memory usage, we can provide
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a brief outline of the class before discussing the model itself.
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The constructor simply records details of the QDomNode that needs to be wrapped:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/domitem.cpp 0
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/domitem.cpp 1
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As a result, functions to provide the parent wrapper, the row number occupied by
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the item in its parent's list of children, and the underlying QDomNode for each item
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are straightforward to write:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/domitem.cpp 4
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\codeline
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/domitem.cpp 6
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\codeline
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/domitem.cpp 3
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It is necessary to maintain a collection of items which can be consistently identified
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by the model. For that reason, we maintain a hash of child wrapper items that, to
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minimize memory usage, is initially empty. The model uses the item's \c child()
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function to help create model indexes, and this constructs wrappers for the children
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of the item's QDomNode, relating the row number of each child to the newly-constructed
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wrapper:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/domitem.cpp 5
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If a QDomNode was previously wrapped, the cached wrapper is returned; otherwise, a
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new wrapper is constructed and stored for valid children, and zero is returned for
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invalid ones.
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The class's destructor deletes all the child items of the wrapper:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/domitem.cpp 2
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These, in turn, will delete their children and free any QDomNode objects in use.
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\section1 DomModel Class Implementation
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The structure provided by the \c DomItem class makes the implementation of \c DomModel
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similar to the \c TreeModel shown in the
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\l{Simple Tree Model Example}{Simple Tree Model} example.
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The constructor accepts an existing document and a parent object for the model:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 0
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A shallow copy of the document is stored for future reference, and a root item is
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created to provide a wrapper around the document. We assign the root item a row
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number of zero only to be consistent since the root item will have no siblings.
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Since the model only contains information about the root item, the destructor only
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needs to delete this one item:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 1
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All of the child items in the tree will be deleted by the \c DomItem destructor as
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their parent items are deleted.
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\section2 Basic Properties of The Model
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Some aspects of the model do not depend on the structure of the underlying document,
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and these are simple to implement.
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The number of columns exposed by the model is returned by the \c columnCount()
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function:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 2
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This value is fixed, and does not depend on the location or type of the underlying
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node in the document. We will use these three columns to display different kinds of
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data from the underlying document.
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Since we only implement a read-only model, the \c flags() function is straightforward
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to write:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 5
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Since the model is intended for use in a tree view, the \c headerData() function only
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provides a horizontal header:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 6
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The model presents the names of nodes in the first column, element attributes in the
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second, and any node values in the third.
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\section2 Navigating The Document
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The index() function creates a model index for the item with the given row, column,
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and parent in the model:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 7
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The function first has to relate the parent index to an item that contains a node
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from the underlying document. If the parent index is invalid, it refers to the root
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node in the document, so we retrieve the root item that wraps it; otherwise, we
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obtain a pointer to the relevant item using the QModelIndex::internalPointer()
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function. We are able to extract a pointer in this way because any valid model index
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will have been created by this function, and we store pointers to item objects in
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any new indexes that we create with QAbstractItemModel::createIndex():
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 8
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A child item for the given row is provided by the parent item's \c child() function.
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If a suitable child item was found then we call
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\l{QAbstractItemModel::createIndex()}{createIndex()} to produce a model index for the
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requested row and column, passing a pointer to the child item for it to store
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internally. If no suitable child item is found, an invalid model index is returned.
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Note that the items themselves maintain ownership of their child items. This means
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that the model does not need to keep track of the child items that have been created,
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and can let the items themselves tidy up when they are deleted.
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The number of rows beneath a given item in the model is returned by the \c rowCount()
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function, and is the number of child nodes contained by the node that corresponds to
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the specified model index:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 10
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To obtain the relevant node in the underlying document, we access the item via the
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internal pointer stored in the model index. If an invalid index is supplied, the
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root item is used instead. We use the item's \c node() function to access the node
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itself, and simply count the number of child nodes it contains.
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Since the model is used to represent a hierarchical data structure, it needs to
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provide an implementation for the \c parent() function. This returns a model index
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that corresponds to the parent of a child model index supplied as its argument:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 9
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For valid indexes other than the index corresponding to the root item, we obtain
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a pointer to the relevant item using the method described in the \c index() function,
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and use the item's \c parent() function to obtain a pointer to the parent item.
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If no valid parent item exists, or if the parent item is the root item, we can simply
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follow convention and return an invalid model index. For all other parent items, we
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create a model index containing the appropriate row and column numbers, and a pointer
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to the parent item we just obtained.
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Data is provided by the \c data() function. For simplicity, we only provide data for
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the \l{Qt::DisplayRole}{display role}, returning an invalid variant for all other
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requests:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 3
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As before, we obtain an item pointer for the index supplied, and use it to obtain
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the underlying document node. Depending on the column specified, the data we return
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is obtained in different ways:
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\snippet itemviews/simpledommodel/dommodel.cpp 4
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For the first column, we return the node's name. For the second column, we read any
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attributes that the node may have, and return a string that contains a space-separated
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list of attribute-value assignments. For the third column, we return any value that
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the node may have; this allows the contents of text nodes to be displayed in a view.
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If data from any other column is requested, an invalid variant is returned.
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\section1 Implementation Notes
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Ideally, we would rely on the structure provided by QDomDocument to help us write
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the \l{QAbstractItemModel::parent()}{parent()} and
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\l{QAbstractItemModel::index()}{index()} functions that are required when subclassing
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QAbstractItemModel. However, since Qt's DOM classes use their own system for
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dynamically allocating memory for DOM nodes, we cannot guarantee that the QDomNode
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objects returned for a given piece of information will be the same for subsequent
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accesses to the document.
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We use item wrappers for each QDomNode to provide consistent pointers that the model
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can use to navigate the document structure.
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\omit
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Since these items contain value references to the QDomNode objects themselves, this
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has the side effect that the DOM nodes themselves can be used to reliably navigate
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the document [not sure about this - QDom* may return different QDomNode objects for
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the same piece of information]. However, this advantage is redundant since we need to
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use wrapper items to obtain it. [Possible use of QDomNode cache in the model itself.]
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\endomit
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*/
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qt_internal_add_example(editabletreemodel)
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qt_internal_add_example(fetchmore)
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qt_internal_add_example(frozencolumn)
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qt_internal_add_example(simpletreemodel)
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qt_internal_add_example(simplewidgetmapper)
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qt_internal_add_example(spinboxdelegate)
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qt_internal_add_example(spreadsheet)
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qt_internal_add_example(stardelegate)
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if(TARGET Qt6::Xml)
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qt_internal_add_example(simpledommodel)
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endif()
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editabletreemodel \
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fetchmore \
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frozencolumn \
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simpledommodel \
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simpletreemodel \
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simplewidgetmapper \
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spinboxdelegate \
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spreadsheet \
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stardelegate
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!qtHaveModule(xml): SUBDIRS -= simpledommodel
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