iPhone XMLParser help

Question

I am needing to parse an XML file for my app and I dont have any clue how to do it. I went through one XMLParser tutorial, and it worked fine but the XML file in the tutoria

Answer 1

I suggest you to read the Event-Driven XML Programming Guide for Cocoa. In your specific case, what you need to do is:

• In the parser:didStartElement: check for the element name: "airport_name", initialize a new array to store all the record elements (or you can define your own data structure to store the record element), a dictionary to store all element in the record, one string variable to store the current text
• In the parser:foundCharacters: append the string to the current text
• In the parser:didEndElement: save the dictionary to the array, release the array, save the results.

UPDATED

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict {

    if ( [elementName isEqualToString:@"airport_name"]) {

        if (!airports)
            airports = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
        NSString *str_icao_ident = [attributeDict objectForKey:@"icao_ident"];
        //do something
        return;
    // ... continued ...
}}