Parsing a problematic RSS feed on iPhone

Question

I have a small test app that parses a few RSS feeds. It all goes well for all except for one.

I scanned through the feed's XML and noticed that it fails once it reached a tag that has "&" in it. So, if I have a tag like this:

<like>beer & barbeque</like>

The log says that it found a string

beer

And it crashes with the exception

Error Domain=NSXMLParserErrorDomain Code=68 "Operation could not be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 68.)

The most annoying thing is that I don't even need the data from the problematic tag. Any idea how I can work around this?

Answer 1

Hpple is supposed to be able to parse "messy" HTML. Maybe it can handle your messy RSS.

Answer 2

Since the feed is already failing... do a string replace on '&<space> ' to '&' while you fight it out with the feed publisher to clean up his act.

The feed must be valid XML. Period.