Question

I am parsing data from an rss. My problem is that the xmlparser dosn’t parse properly. it only parses data partly. So to explain my situation a bit better I will give you and example. So say suppose there is a speical charecter in a title (parsing the titles)

like

"This is a test"

and in rss it is written like this

<title>&#8220;This is a test&#8220;</title>

and when i try to parse the data I just get
a

 "

why is doing this and How can i fix it here is some code

 -(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string{

 currentNodeContent = [string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceCharacterSet]];
}

Answer 1

parser:foundCharacters: may be called several times with characters for the same element. You need to create a mutable string and append the characters until parser:didStartElement:namespaceURI:qualifiedName:attributes: is called for the associated element. The xml decoding should be automatic and that is why you were just getting the ” which was just the last character(“) in your node.

The parser object may send the delegate several
parser:foundCharacters: messages to report the characters of an
element. Because string may be only part of the total character
content for the current element, you should append it to the current
accumulation of characters until the element changes.