My previous little demo app came up against a huge roadblock when any reference to a QTreeWidget would cause an application crash with a segmentation fault. As far as I can see, this was not due to anything in my code, so eventually I went back to the drawing board and rewrote the app using the UI designer in QT Creator. This is now working (parsing an XML string into a DOM tree and displaying it in a QTreeWidget). Something in the process of creating the QTreeWidget in the UI class seems to protect against the seg fault.

I'm now working on having the app build an index of xml:id attributes, from a persistent DOM model, and figure out how easy it is to keep the index and the DOM model aligned.