How to parse a HTML file at a URL?

Question

I am new to iphone development.I am able to parse a Xml file at a URL and retrieve it contents from a particular nodes.

For Parsing at url

 NSString * path = @"xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
    [self parseXMLFileAtURL:path];

For retrieving the data i use NSXMLParser .How can i achieve the same thing if i have HTML file at my URL(Source code of the webpage is HTML).Please help me out.Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,

You can't parse HTML with NSXMLParser, unless if you want parse it markup by markup.

However it exists some library to do this like the libxml2. You can find a mini tuto here: How to Parse HTML

You can also find more information about it at another topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/405749/parsing-html-on-the-iphone