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Menthor
Menthor

Reputation: 33

How to read URLs (with special characters) with NSXMLParser?

I download an XML file that contains several URLs. It works fine, but when I enter a URL in the XML like this:

http://eda-bea.es/pub/record_card_1.php?refpage=%252Fpub%252Fsearch_select.php&quicksearch=adra&page=1&rec=3

the parser stops.

From what I understand is that the URL contains special characters, I have sought and given as a possible solution the following code, where information is encoded to UTF8 before parsing:

NSString *dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:URL encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:error];
NSData *data = [dataString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

NSXMLParser *parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:data];
[parser setDelegate:self];

[parser parse];

It does not work. Stop parsing in this method

-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName 
                                 namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI 
                                qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName 
                                   attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 184

Answers (2)

Menthor
Menthor

Reputation: 33

the solution was using the field

<![CDATA[http://eda-bea.es/pub/record_card_1.php?refpage=%252Fpub%252Fsearch_select.php&quicksearch=adra&page=1&rec=3]]>

Upvotes: 1

Jeffery Thomas
Jeffery Thomas

Reputation: 42588

Changed Answer

This link http://eda-bea.es/pub/record_card_1.php?refpage=%252Fpub%252Fsearch_select.php&quicksearch=adra&page=1&rec=3 is not an XML document, it's an HTML document.

The parser will fail on <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="images.php/hispep.css"> because here is no end link tag.

Upvotes: 0

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