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Nivit Kochhar
2,502 PointsHTML to NSDictionary
I wanted to create a similar app to the blog reader app made in the tutorial.
Say I have a the html code of a webpage in the form of an NSString, how do I convert this to an NSDictionary object?
2 Answers
Nivit Kochhar
2,502 PointsI'm looking to make each tag the key and the information inside the tag to become the object of that key.
James Andrews
7,245 PointsI don't know why you would want to do that, but I can see a lot of issues with it already. HTML has many tags that are the same, so parsing a tag may get over ridden by another tag down the line. Going through each nested element and storing all that data in a NSDictionary is bound to be a memory issue. Lastly HTML parsing is not a fun party. Not sure if Objective-C has an easy way to parse HTML but I've done it in PHP and Perl and I only do it on rare occasions where I need to screen scrap data, and then I only store data I need not the entire HTML structure. You may want to reconsider that approach.
Nivit Kochhar
2,502 PointsI managed to use the XMLParser class to get the job done. The app is working (y)
James Andrews
7,245 PointsJames Andrews
7,245 PointsDo you want to insert it into the dictionary? or are you looking for each line to be an object in the dictionary? in which case wouldn't an array be better?