Using an NSXMLParser to parse HTML

Question

I\'m working on an app which aggregates some feeds from the internet and reformats the content. So I\'m looking for a way to parse some HTML. Given XML and HTML are very sim

Answer 1

There's absolutely nothing special about "p" as the name of an element. While it is hard to be sure because you haven't provided an example of the HTML you are parsing, the problem is most likely caused by HTML that is not well-formed XML. In other words, using NSXMLParser would work on XHTML, but not necessarily plain-old HTML.

The "p" element is frequently found in HTML without the matching closing tag, which is not valid XML. My guess is that you would have to convert the HTML to XHTML before trying to parse it with an NSXMLParser