im pretty new in ios development and im tryin to parse an RSS file(xml).
here is the xml: (sorry for the language)
<item>
<category> General < / category >
<title> killed in a tractor accident , was critically injured windsurfer </ title>
<description>
< ! [ CDATA [
<div> <a href='http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4360016,00.html'> <img src = 'http://www.ynet.co. il/PicServer3/2012/11/28/4302844/YOO_8879_a.jpg ' alt =' photo: Yaron Brener 'title =' Amona 'border = '0' width = '116 'height = '116'> </ a> < / div >
] ] >
Tractor driver in his 50s near Kfar Yuval flipped and trapped underneath . Room was critically injured windsurfer hurled rocks because of strong winds and wind surfer after was moderately injured in Netanya
< / description >
<link>
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0 , 7340, L- 4360016 , 00.html
< / link >
<pubDate> Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:10:15 +0200 </ pubDate>
<guid>
http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0 , 7340, L- 4360016 , 00.html
< / guid >
<tags> Kill , car accidents , surfing < / tags >
< / item >
and here is my xmlparser code:
- (void)parserDidStartDocument:(NSXMLParser *)parser
{
self.titles = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
self.descriptions = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
self.links = [[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict
{
if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"item"]) {
isItem = YES;
}
if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"title"]) {
isTitle=YES;
self.titlesString = [[NSMutableString alloc]init];
}
if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"description"]) {
isDesription = YES;
self.descriptionString = [NSMutableString string];
self.data = [NSMutableData data];
}
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string{
if(isItem && isTitle){
[self.titlesString appendString:string];
}
if (isItem && isDesription) {
if (self.descriptionString)
[self.descriptionString appendString:string];
}
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCDATA:(NSData *)CDATABlock
{
if (self.data)
[self.data appendData:CDATABlock];
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName
{
if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"item"]) {
isItem = NO;
[self.titles addObject:self.titlesString];
[self.descriptions addObject:self.descriptionString];
}
if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"title"]) {
isTitle=NO;
}
if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"description"]) {
NSString *result = [self.descriptionString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
NSLog(@"string=%@", result);
if ([self.data length] > 0)
{
NSString *htmlSnippet = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:self.data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *imageSrc = [self firstImgUrlString:htmlSnippet];
NSLog(@"img src=%@", imageSrc);
[self.links addObject:imageSrc];
}
self.descriptionString = nil;
self.data = nil;
}
}
- (NSString *)firstImgUrlString:(NSString *)string
{
NSError *error = NULL;
NSRegularExpression *regex = [NSRegularExpression regularExpressionWithPattern:@"(<img\\s[\\s\\S]*?src\\s*?=\\s*?['\"](.*?)['\"][\\s\\S]*?>)+?"
options:NSRegularExpressionCaseInsensitive
error:&error];
NSTextCheckingResult *result = [regex firstMatchInString:string
options:0
range:NSMakeRange(0, [string length])];
if (result)
return [string substringWithRange:[result rangeAtIndex:2]];
return nil;
}
@end
Like I said I'm pretty new to iPhone development, I looked for ways to solve it for several hours but found nothing. I decided to open a topic, then a few questions:
One. The parser does not ignore what CDATA is just doing parse everything. Why is this happening? As you can see the description itself is not in cdata and I I have only the first step but I get the rest even when I'm not using foundCDATA: (NSData *) CDATABlock
Two. I want to take the image link, how to do it? I searched online and found a lot of guide explains only use the function foundCDATA: (NSData *) CDATABlock But how is it used? The way in which I used in the code?
Please I need an explanation so I can understand, thank you!