NSXMLParser Missing Characters

I am analyzing an XML file using NSXMLParser, which works great but sometimes gives me inaccurate results.

For example, I get this URL:

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces;jsessionid=01F974DC9E276DA587AE299175EDF4F4.ctgProd02?siteId=4&开发者_如何转开发link=ctg_trs_home_from_ths_home_sitenav

but NSXMLParser outputs:

http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces;jsessionid=01F974DC9E276DA587AE299175EDF4F4.ctgProd02?siteId=4&link=ctg_trs_home_from_ths_home_sitenav

For some reason, it ignored the #38; part of the string - how can I get this back? Assuming this was HTML encoding I have tried stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: but that will not work.

Any ideas?

XML uses the same character reference encoding mechanism as HTML (although it has only 5 predefined named entities, as opposed to the huge number defined for HTML). & is an encoding for the & character.

Perhaps the top answer to this question might help: Objective-C: How to replace HTML entities?

It's basically a category to NSString someone made that offers both encoding and decoding of HTML entities in NSString.

You're using the ISO standard. Try either using %26 or by using url encoding.