Objective C HTML escape/unescape

Question

Wondering if there is an easy way to do a simple HTML escape/unescape in Objective C. What I want is something like this psuedo code:

NSString *string = @\"         


        

Answer 1

This link contains the solution below. Cocoa CF has the CFXMLCreateStringByUnescapingEntities function but that's not available on the iPhone.

@interface MREntitiesConverter : NSObject {
    NSMutableString* resultString;
}

@property (nonatomic, retain) NSMutableString* resultString;

- (NSString*)convertEntitiesInString:(NSString*)s;

@end


@implementation MREntitiesConverter

@synthesize resultString;

- (id)init
{
    if([super init]) {
        resultString = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
    }
    return self;
}

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)s {
        [self.resultString appendString:s];
}

- (NSString*)convertEntitiesInString:(NSString*)s {
    if (!s) {
        NSLog(@"ERROR : Parameter string is nil");
    }
    NSString* xmlStr = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@", s];
    NSData *data = [xmlStr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
    NSXMLParser* xmlParse = [[[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:data] autorelease];
    [xmlParse setDelegate:self];
    [xmlParse parse];
    return [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",resultString];
}

- (void)dealloc {
    [resultString release];
    [super dealloc];
}

@end