Question

I am currently working on a software to control aMule status of my server through the iPhone,
i created a socket that spits out xml which should be parsed out, but because NSXMLParser is event-drive, i’m having problems in understanding how this could work…
I thought of this type of XML structure, if you have ideas of a better way to structure it please tell me!! 😀

<root type="donwloads">   <-- specifies downloads or search results
<file name="Ubuntu_9_10.iso" status="[11,6%]" />
<file name="Fedora 12.iso" status="[56,2%]" />
</root>

What i was thinking is, as i want to put this in a tableview, most probably i will need a NSMutableArray with lots of NSDictionaries based on the results, every dict should be a file.. what do you guys propose?? how should i handle this situation?

Thanks

Answer 1

Thanks a lot for your answers 😀 fortunately i resolved the problem 10 minutes after 😀
ill post what i did:

XML:

<root>
  <downloads>
<file type="text" name="fdsdf" />
<file type="text" name="sdfsdfssds" />
  </downloads>
</root>

NSXMLParser delegates:

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName       namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qualifiedName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict{
if([elementName isEqualToString:@"downloads"] || [elementName isEqualToString:@"results"]){
    NSLog(@"starting or downloads or results");
    if(xmlArray){
        xmlArray= nil;
    }
    self.xmlArray= [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
}
else if([elementName isEqualToString:@"file"]){
    NSLog(@"found file...");
    [self.xmlArray addObject:attributeDict];
   }
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName{
if([elementName isEqualToString:@"downloads"] || [elementName isEqualToString:@"results"]){
    if([elementName isEqualToString:@"downloads"]){
        NSLog(@"downloads found: %@...  reloading table", xmlArray);
    }
  }
}

I hope this can possibly help someone which has my same problem 😀