Can someone please tell me what is going on here?
I have an application that starts by seeking out certain XML files and creating classes that hold their data. I know that the file's contents is read because of the tests that I used, as shown below:

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if(element.hasAttribute("id") == false)
        throw QString(path + " does not contain and id");
else{
        name = element.attribute("id");
        std::cout << "Found: " << name.toUtf8.data << std::endl;
}

This reliably prints out what I want but when I go to access this information later the string is empty.
Could someone please fill me in on what is happening?

Impossible to say without seeing where you are trying to access the string later on.

Could you have to variables with the same name but different scope?

Cheers,
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