Question

I am getting some XML back form a webservice:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<NewDataSet>
  <Table>
    <CITY>Jupiter</CITY>
    <STATE>FL</STATE>
    <ZIP>33477</ZIP>
    <AREA_CODE>561</AREA_CODE>
    <TIME_ZONE>E</TIME_ZONE>
  </Table>
</NewDataSet>

I need a simple clean way to get the CITY and STATE values form this XML. Is there a nice and simple way to do this in iOS?

Answer 1

Theres a neat NSXMLParser Wrapper which converts the XML file to an NSDictionary for you.

It’s simple and clean!

http://troybrant.net/blog/2010/09/simple-xml-to-nsdictionary-converter/

Then from there, you could use:

NSDictionary *dict = [self convertXML:xmlContents];
NSArray *tables = [dict objectForKey:@"NewDataSet"];

for (NSDictionary *table in tables) {

   NSLog(@"City = %@", [table objectForKey:@"city"]);

}