basically im looking for something that will just turn xml into an nsdictionary hierarchy.
A:
On the iPhone, the way to do XML parsing is to use the NSXMLParser class, which takes a delegate (a.k.a. visitor) object of type NSXMLParserDelegate which gets invoked as different parts of the XML tree are visited. So, you can create a delegate that stores away the information into a dictionary. That said, most likely you won't care about everything in the XML that you parse, which is exactly why these parsing mechanism exists; you can create delegate that stores just the bits you want, which is faster and more memory efficient than adding a new dictionary entry for everything even if you never use it.
Michael Aaron Safyan
2010-08-08 07:13:50
I 100 percent hear what you're saying but if I want to just use a quick and dirty xml parser for a small piece of xml, that I don't have to dive into, there isn't really much out there then? I guess this brings up another question which is: is JSON just much more elegant of a solution why should we have to reinvent the wheel each time we go to start parsing xml, from the outside looking in it seems like a waste of my time but, I also hear what you're saying in that hey just parse what you need and ignore the rest. if it's that much of a pain to parse XML is JSON becoming the new hawtness?
nickthedude
2010-08-08 18:18:45
+1
A:
Hey Nick, I wrote an XML to NSDicitonary converter you might find useful:
http://troybrant.net/blog/2010/09/simple-xml-to-nsdictionary-converter/
Troy Brant
2010-09-19 05:57:34