How to parse rss feed from iPhone?

Question

I need to parse the rss feed from feed://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/huffingtonpost/LatestNews. But, I could not read Link tag of data because it doesn't have separate start and end tag.

<link id="apple-rss-icon" rel="icon" href="file://localhost/System/Library/Frameworks/PubSub.framework/Versions/A/Resources/PubSubAgent.app/Contents/Resources/favicon.tif" type="image/x-icon" />

I am using NSXMLParser class with following methods.

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

• (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string

• (void)parserDidStartDocument:(NSXMLParser *)parser

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

Answer 1

There are a couple of rss parser implementations available. E.g https://github.com/mwaterfall/MWFeedParser Maybe you can use this or get some inspiration from it.

Answer 2

Non-paired tags such as what you're showing will still fire NSXMLParser events and you can access the element's attributes inside the didStartElement method.

For an example of a pretty full-featured Objective-C RSS parser, check out MWFeedParser.