Question

Hi guys i have little weird problem. I am using a simple XML to NSDictionary converter
http://troybrant.net/blog/2010/09/simple-xml-to-nsdictionary-converter/
and but if print the NSDictionary , i can see the text value for the node but if i store it in plist, text node will not have any string value. see attach images.

here is the plist screenshot.

here is the code

NSURL * URL = [[NSURL alloc]initWithString:@"rss feed link "];
    NSData * data = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:URL];
    NSString *testXMLString = [[NSString alloc]initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

    // Parse the XML into a dictionary
    NSError *parseError = nil;
    NSDictionary *xmlDictionary = [XMLReader dictionaryForXMLString:testXMLString error:&parseError];
    NSString * filepath = [self dataFilePathwithFilename:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"TEST.plist"]];
  [xmlDictionary writeToFile:filepath atomically:YES];


    // Print the dictionary
    NSLog(@"%@", xmlDictionary);

Answer 1

I don’t think your plist files have empty values. You are just not accounting for the new line character in the highlight text in your first image ("\n\thttp://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1").

One easy way of verifying this would be to open it using a text editor. You will find that the values are there. You can also navigate to that field in the property list editor and press the down button.

Replacing the newline characters

Use stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:withString: method to replace all newline characters with @"".

testXMLString = [testXMLString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@""];

Better Trimming

As such replacing tabs (\t) seems to render the string unreadable by the XMLReader. So to fix this, it would be easier the change the XMLReader code to insert trimmed values into the dictionary.

In the method parser:didEndElement:namespaceURI:qualifiedName:, replace

[dictInProgress setObject:textInProgress forKey:kXMLReaderTextNodeKey];

with

NSString * trimmedString = [textInProgress stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet characterSetWithCharactersInString:@"\n\t"]];
[dictInProgress setObject:trimmedString forKey:kXMLReaderTextNodeKey];