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It can be used for basic traversal of the document structure, to search for particular elements (see the \l{Simple Selector Example}), and to modify content in-place. This example uses a QWebView widget to display the Web page, and a dock widget holds the QTreeWidget that shows the document structure. These widgets are placed in an instance of the \c Window class, which we describe below. \section1 Window Class Definition The \c Window class is derived from QMainWindow and its user interface is created using \l{Qt Designer}. As a result, the class is also derived from the user interface class created by \l uic: \snippet examples/webkit/domtraversal/window.h Window class definition Two important functions to note are the \c on_webView_loadFinished() slot and the \c examineChildElements() function. The former is automatically called when the QWebView widget finishes loading a page \mdash see the \l{#Further Reading}{Further Reading} section for more information on this mechanism. The \c examineChildElements() function is used to traverse the document structure and add items to the QTreeWidget. \section1 Window Class Implementation In the \c Window class constructor, we call the \l{QWidget::}{setupUi()} function to set up the user interface described in the \c{window.ui} file: \snippet examples/webkit/domtraversal/window.cpp Window constructor When the Web page is loaded, the \c on_webView_loadFinished() slot is called. Here, we clear the tree widget and begin inspection of the document by obtaining the document element from the page's main frame: \snippet examples/webkit/domtraversal/window.cpp begin document inspection At this point, we call the \c examineChildElements() function to traverse the document, starting with the child elements of the document element for which we will create top level items in the tree widget. The \c examineChildElements() function accepts a parent element and a parent item. Starting with the first child element, which we obtain with the element's \l{QWebElement::}{firstChild()} function, we examine each child element of the parent item. For each valid (non-null) element, which we check by calling its \l{QWebElement::}{isNull()} function, we create a new QTreeWidgetItem instance with the element name and add it to the parent item. \snippet examples/webkit/domtraversal/window.cpp traverse document We recursively examine the child elements for each element by calling \c examineChildElements() with the current child element and the newly-created item. To obtain the next element at the same level in the document, we call its \l{QWebElement::}{nextSibling()} function. This recursive approach to reading the document makes it easy to create a simple representation of the document structure in a tree widget. For completeness, we show the \c setUrl() function, which is provided to allow the document URL to be set from the example's \c main() function. \snippet examples/webkit/domtraversal/window.cpp set URL \section1 Starting the Example We set up the application, create a \c Window instance, set its URL, and show it: \snippet examples/webkit/simpleselector/main.cpp main program When the application's event loop is run, the Qt home page will load, and the tree widget will be updated to show the document structure. Navigating to another page will cause the tree widget to be updated to show the document structure of the new page. \section1 Further Reading The QWebElement documentation contains more information about DOM access for the QtWebKit classes. In this example, we take advantage of Qt's \l{Using a Designer UI File in Your Application#Automatic Connections}{auto-connection} feature to avoid explicitly connecting signals to slots. The user interface contains a QWebView widget called \c webView whose \l{QWebView::}{loadFinished()} signal is automatically connected to the \c on_webView_loadFinished() slot when we call \l{QWidget::}{setupUi()} in the \c Window constructor. */