Re: Issue with NSXMLDocument and bad HTML

• Subject: Re: Issue with NSXMLDocument and bad HTML
• From: Brian Stern <email@hidden>
• Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 15:48:56 -0400
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>I'm trying to load an HTML page as an XML object like this:
>
>> NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://wwwa.accuweather.com/
>> forecast.asp?zipcode=94025&partner=accuweather"]];
>> NSXMLDocument *xml = [[[NSXMLDocument alloc]
>> initWithContentsOfURL:url options:NSXMLDocumentTidyXML
>> error:anError]autorelease];
>
>The page seems to be malformed, so the NSXMLDocument becomes nil and
>'anError' contains a lot of errors:
>
>> NSError "line 78 column 26 - Warning: unescaped & or unknown entity
>> "&city"

The page isn't malformed.  All those ampersands are inside string constants
in javascript that's on that page.  You probably need to download the page
and remove all the javascript content before passing it to NSXMLDocument.

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Brian  Stern
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