Rendering HTML webpages

I need to learn how to interact with a HTML webpage via objective c, and render that webpage so that it's suitable for the iphone's limted screen size.

I relise UIWebView would be a great choice, but I only want specific information to show, such as the title, body text, and some images.

I have done a lot of reading around the subject and I believe I need to locate tags within the source HTML code, and assign their object contents to objects within my objective c code. After aquiring the objects I can then assign them to custom UIViews however I like.

Am I on the right track here? Can anyone guide me in the right direction? I'm not looking for any code from you, just some direction.

Thanks
Rob

 

I'm generating an RSS Feeder app that presents a table view as the inital view controller. When a feed is selected, I want the webpage to load in a new view and I want the webpage to appear re-rendered, similar to how it re-reneders in Safari when the 'Reader' option is chosen by the user.

The webpage I'm interested in, is not compatible with the 'Reader' feature of Safari.

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

----------

There is an app called medical news, which is an RSS Feed. The image below shows what happens when a feed is selected.



It looks cool, and it's what I want to study next. How does the webpage change like this, so that it looks cool on an iPhone screen?

 

Thanks for this. Very useful.

A website that has a pdf file attached has source code that looks like this:

Code:

<span class="AdxAttachment"><a href="/Default.aspx?DN=0cd4cc21-7d85-4f4b-8a0b-638600859952" target="_blank" class="title">View a PDF of this factsheet</a><div class="summary"></div></span>

I want to extract this: /Default.aspx?DN=0cd4cc21-7d85-4f4b-8a0b-638600859952

Is there a way of doing it with minimal parsing of html?

 

Thanks chown33