Question

Okay i have seen TouchXML, parseXML, NSXMLDocument, NSXMLParser but i am really confused with what to to do.

I have an iphone app which connects to a servers, requests data and gets XML response. Sample xml response to different set of queries is give at http://pastebin.com/f681c4b04

I have another classes which acts as Controller (As in MVC, to do the logic of fetch the data). This class gets the input from the View classes and processes it e.g. send a request to the webserver, gets xml, parses xml, populates its variables (its a singleton/shared Classes), and then responses as true or false to the caller. Caller, based on response given by the controller class, checks controller’s variables and shows appropriate contents to the user.

I have the following Controller Class variables:

@interface backendController : NSObject {
NSMutableDictionary *searchResults, *plantInfoResults, *bookmarkList, *userLoginResult;
}

and functions like getBookmarkList, getPlantInfo. Right now i am printing plain XML return by the webserver by
NSLog(@”Result: :%@” [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:url])

I want a generic function which gets the XML returned from the server, parseses it, makes a NSMutableDictionary of it containing XML opening tags’ text representation as Keys and XML Tag Values as Values and return that.

Only one question, how to do that?.

Answer 1

Have you tried any of the XML Parsers you mentioned? This is how they set the key value of a node name:

[aBook setValue:currentElementValue forKey:elementName];

P.S. Double check your XML though, seems you are missing a root node on some of your results. Unless you left it out for simplicity.

Take a look at w3schools XML tutorial, it should point you in the right direction for XML syntax.