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

HTML is not necessarily well-formed XML, and that's the trouble when you parse it as XML.

Take the following example:

    
123
    
abc
    
789

If you view this chunk of html in a browser, it would show just as what you expected. But if you parse this as xml, there would be trouble, as those p tags are not closed.