Sample function for parsing a QXmlStreamReader (or part thereof) to a QVariant tree.

xmlToVariant.cpp

QVariantMap xmlStreamToVariant(QXmlStreamReader &xml, const QString &prefix = QLatin1String("."), const int maxDepth = 1024)
{
    if (maxDepth < 0) {
        qWarning() << QObject::tr("max depth exceeded");
        return QVariantMap();
    }

    if (xml.hasError()) {
        qWarning() << xml.errorString();
        return QVariantMap();
    }

    if (xml.tokenType() == QXmlStreamReader::NoToken)
        xml.readNext();

    if ((xml.tokenType() != QXmlStreamReader::StartDocument) &&
        (xml.tokenType() != QXmlStreamReader::StartElement)) {
        qWarning() << QObject::tr("unexpected XML tokenType %1 (%2)")
                      .arg(xml.tokenString()).arg(xml.tokenType());
        return QVariantMap();
    }

    QVariantMap map;
    if (xml.tokenType() == QXmlStreamReader::StartDocument) {
        map.insert(prefix + QLatin1String("DocumentEncoding"), xml.documentEncoding().toString());
        map.insert(prefix + QLatin1String("DocumentVersion"), xml.documentVersion().toString());
        map.insert(prefix + QLatin1String("StandaloneDocument"), xml.isStandaloneDocument());
    } else {
        if (!xml.namespaceUri().isEmpty())
            map.insert(prefix + QLatin1String("NamespaceUri"), xml.namespaceUri().toString());
        foreach (const QXmlStreamAttribute &attribute, xml.attributes()) {
            QVariantMap attributeMap;
            attributeMap.insert(QLatin1String("Value"), attribute.value().toString());
            if (!attribute.namespaceUri().isEmpty())
                attributeMap.insert(QLatin1String("NamespaceUri"), attribute.namespaceUri().toString());
            if (!attribute.prefix().isEmpty())
                attributeMap.insert(QLatin1String("Prefix"), attribute.prefix().toString());
            attributeMap.insert(QLatin1String("QualifiedName"), attribute.qualifiedName().toString());
            map.insertMulti(prefix + attribute.name().toString(), attributeMap);
        }
    }

    for (xml.readNext(); (!xml.atEnd()) && (xml.tokenType() != QXmlStreamReader::EndElement)
          && (xml.tokenType() != QXmlStreamReader::EndDocument); xml.readNext()) {
        switch (xml.tokenType()) {
        case QXmlStreamReader::Characters:
        case QXmlStreamReader::Comment:
        case QXmlStreamReader::DTD:
        case QXmlStreamReader::EntityReference:
            map.insertMulti(prefix + xml.tokenString(), xml.text().toString());
            break;
        case QXmlStreamReader::ProcessingInstruction:
            map.insertMulti(prefix + xml.processingInstructionTarget().toString(),
                            xml.processingInstructionData().toString());
            break;
        case QXmlStreamReader::StartElement:
            map.insertMulti(xml.name().toString(), xmlStreamToVariant(xml, prefix, maxDepth-1));
            break;
        default:
            qWarning() << QObject::tr("unexpected XML tokenType %1 (%2)")
                          .arg(xml.tokenString()).arg(xml.tokenType());
        }
    }
    return map;
}

@chakani, oops. toVariant was the original name I gave the function... ie its recursive. I'll fix that up now (only three years late 😆)