How to Parse XML File using xmlparsing on iphone?
How do I access following XML file using xmlparsing on an iphone?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<chapter>
<TITLE>Title &plainEntity;</TITLE>
<para>
<informaltable>
<tgroup cols="3">
<tbody>
<row><entry>a1</entry><entry morerows="1">b1</entry><entry>c1</entry></row>
<row><entry>a2<<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<ADDRESS>
<CONTACT>
<NAME FIRST="Fred" LAST="Bloggs" NICK="Bloggsie" TITLE="Mr" />
<STREET HOME="5 Any Street" WORK="Floor 24, BigShot Tower" />
<CITY HOME="Little Town" WORK="Anycity" />
<COUNTY HOME="Anyshire" WORK="Anyshire" />
<POSTAL HOME="as plain text" WORK="text" />
<COUNTRY HOME="UK" WORK="UK" />
<PHONE HOME="as text" WORK="text" />
<FAX HOME="none" WORK="555" />
<MOBILE HOME="444" WORK="333" />
<WEB HOME="www.codehelp.co.uk" WORK="" />
<COMPANY>Full name of company here</COMPANY>
<GENDER>male</GENDER>
<BDAY>Add tags for year, month and day to make this more useful</BDAY>
<ANNI>some date long forgotten :-)</ANNI>
<SPOUSE>angry</SPOUSE>
<CHILDREN>Make sure this tag is one of the ones allowed to repeat in the DTD</CHILDREN>
<COMMENT>comments here</COMMENT>
<EMAILONE>Either use fixed tags like this, or change to a repeating tag</EMAILONE>
<EMAILTWO>second email line</EMAILTWO>
<EMAILTHREE>third</EMAILTHREE>
<EMAILFOUR>fourth</EMAILFOUR>
</CONTACT&开发者_运维百科gt;
</ADDRESS>/entry><entry>c2</entry></row>
<row><entry>a3</entry><entry>b3</entry><entry>c3</entry></row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</para>
&systemEntity;
<section id="about">
<title>About this Document</title>
<para>
<!-- this is a comment -->
</para>
</section>
</chapter>
The SDK provides two ways to parse XML: libxml2 and NSXMLParser. libxml2 is the fastest. To use it in your project, go to the build settings for your iPhone App project and set the following:
Other linker flags = -lxml2
Header Search Paths: $(SDKROOT)/usr/include/libxml2
Then download XPathQuery.m and XPathQuery.h from this page: Using libxml2 for XML parsing and XPath queries in Cocoa, which also provides a tutorial on how to use it. That XPathQuery class is a simplified way to parse XML. I recommend it unless you want to write the same code yourself, which doesn't seem the case.
With that on place, do
NSString *string = nil; // put your html document here
NSData *htmlData = [string dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *xpath = @"//row"; // any standard XPath expression
NSArray *nodesArray = PerformHTMLXPathQuery(htmlData, xpath);
NSDictionary *dict;
if (0<[nodesArray count]) {
dict = [nodesArray objectAtIndex:0];
}
At this point the elements from your document should be inside the dict
dictionary.
Here are releated the SO post,
Parser XML with NSXMLParser
http://www.raywenderlich.com/553/how-to-chose-the-best-xml-parser-for-your-iphone-project
NSXMLParser example
below is the blog tutorial for using NSXMLParser
.
http://markstruzinski.com/?p=47
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