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phxbbrown

macrumors newbie
Jun 20, 2008
14
1
Phoenix, AZ
TouchXML is pretty slick. I found it to be an adequate replacement for NSXMLDocument. It's read-only: there's no serialization behaviors defined. It uses libxml2, so it should be nice and quick.

Otherwise, the recent releases included NSXMLParser, which might work for you if you just need a forward-only XML reader. It uses callbacks to notify your app about parsing milestones as it goes through the document.

Bill
 

fenrus110

macrumors regular
Mar 24, 2008
142
0
NSXMLParser seems like a pretty useless class to me.

All it seems to be is bunch of HARD CODED if-else statements of comparing the element names.

My app originally used NSXMLDocument to receive xml response data that I looped through to fill up some NSDictionary's so I could put them inside UITableView -> Detail view.

I pretty much need to loop through the entire xml data set, which has at least 50 elements. If I were to use NSXMLParser, would I be expected to write

if ([element name isEqualToString:mad:"firstname"] {
currentString = [NSMutableString string];
} else if ...

50 times for both "didStartEelement" and "didEndElement"? Sounds pretty ridiculous to me. Correct me if I'm wrong.
 

DenNukem

macrumors member
Jul 12, 2008
31
0
Seattle
You can use libxml2. That's what I do.
It's C only (not C++ or obj-c) so you have to manage memory carefully, but in return you get real DOM.
 
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