Question

I’ve found the following code for parsing through RSS but it does not seem to allow for nested elements:

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName{          NSLog(@'ended element: %@', elementName);     if ([elementName isEqualToString:@'item']) {         // save values to an item, then store that item into the array...         [item setObject:currentTitle forKey:@'title'];         [item setObject:currentLink forKey:@'link'];         [item setObject:currentSummary forKey:@'summary'];         [item setObject:currentDate forKey:@'date'];         [item setObject:currentImage forKey:@'media:thumbnail']; 

The RSS to used is:

    <item><title>Knife robberies and burglaries up</title> <description>The number of robberies carried out at knife-point has increased sharply and burglaries are also up, latest crime figures indicate</description> <link>http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/uk/7844455.stm</link> <guid isPermaLink='false'>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7844455.stm</guid> <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:02:03 GMT</pubDate><category>UK</category> <media:thumbnail width='66' height='49' url='http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/45400000/jpg/_45400861_policegeneric_pa.jpg'/> </item> 

I need to extract the ‘url’ element from the ‘media’ tag.

Thanks Martin

Answer 1

You need to get the attributes (including the URL) when the element starts:

parser:didStartElement:namespaceURI:qualifiedName:attributes: