QDomElement's text() for <element> </element> giving me a empty Qstring

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From the docs (link):

Edit: I'm lacking a bit of sleep on this so what I said previously in this post is kinda off.

Maybe I'm not getting the full picture with how to use that class to read whitespace, so could you explain it a bit more?

Right now, my QDomDocument is set as private in my header and predefined. This is the code I use to load the data for retrieving my data.

void ScfEncoder::load(QString path)
{
    QFile structFile(path);
 
    if(!structFile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text))
    {
        fatalExit("Failed to open input file!");
    }
 
    /* Load all data */
    xmlData.setContent(structFile.readAll());
 
    structFile.close();
 
    // Get root
    root = xmlData.documentElement();
 
    if(root.isNull())
    {
        fatalExit("Root of the input XML file was not detected!");
    }
}

void ScfEncoder::load(QString path)
{
    QFile structFile(path);

    if(!structFile.open(QIODevice::ReadOnly | QIODevice::Text))
    {
        fatalExit("Failed to open input file!");
    }

    /* Load all data */
    xmlData.setContent(structFile.readAll());

    structFile.close();

    // Get root
    root = xmlData.documentElement();

    if(root.isNull())
    {
        fatalExit("Root of the input XML file was not detected!");
    }
}

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I'm just asking if there is any way to retrieve whitespace from a node such as the one I provided above using any existing methods or classes in Qt or do I have to kinda do it manually, if it's even possible?