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Re: NSXMLParser question

Yes, not all RSS feeds are well-formed XML. These feeds aren't correct, but if you want to be able to parse them you can't use NSXMLParser (since a real XML parser won't parse a non-well-formed feed).

Given that, why are you writing your own RSS parser at all? Brent Simmons has posted open-source code to an RSS parser using CoreFoundation routines. You can find it at <http://ranchero.com/cocoa/rss/>. Note that I haven't looked at it, I'm just assuming it's decent since he's the author of NetNewsWire (and NetNewsWire 2 rocks)

On Oct 21, 2004, at 6:17 AM, Jesus De Meyer wrote:

For test purposes I wanted to check out the NSXMLParser object to read RSS feeds. Now, I've found that some sites do not parse at all.

For example: http://slashdot.org/index.rss doesn't parse, but changing that to http://www.slashdot.org/index.rss (notice the www) does. Is there a method in Cocoa that will automatically change the URL from one format to the other?
Another site is http://www.insidemacgames.com/news/rss.php A closer look to the code shows that the code has a <![CDATA[ tag, which is probably why the parser doesn't parse.

I've seen that NSXMLParser does have delegate methods to handle this, but I have no idea how to use them. Can anybody here help me on this issue, perhaps with some sample code?

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Kevin Ballard
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