How to retrieve country name from xmlParser - iphone

Question

I am trying to retrieve countries name from a xml. Here is the xml result.
<Table diffgr:id="Table1" msdata:rowOrder="0"><id>1</id><country>Afghanistan</country><isd_code>93</isd_code><timezone>+04:30</timezone><visible>false</visible></Table><Table diffgr:id="Table2" msdata:rowOrder="1"><id>2</id><country>Albania</country><isd_code>355</isd_code><timezone>+01:00</timezone><visible>false</visible></Table>
In parser did end element method
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict
{
if ( [elementName isEqualToString:#"Table"] ) {
NSLog(#"attribute is %#",attributeDict);
}
}
OutPut is
attribute is {
"diffgr:id" = Table1;
"msdata:rowOrder" = 0;
}
How can i retrieve country name.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Try this,
in viewDidLoad:-
countryarr=[[NSMutableArray alloc]init];
nodeContent=[[NSMutableString alloc]init];
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string
{
[nodeContent appendString:[string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]]];
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName
{
if ([elementName isEqualToString:#"country"])
{
[countryarr addObject:nodeContent];
}
nodeContent=[[NSMutableString alloc]init];
}

Answer 2

Give this a try
NSString *elementname;
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict
{
elementname = elementName;
}
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string{
if([elementname isEqualToString:#"country"])
{
NSLog(#"country name is : %#",string);
}
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict
{
elementname = elementName;
}

Answer 3

Try this directly in -(void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection Method
Code ::
NSString *theXML = [[[NSString alloc] initWithBytes: [responseData mutableBytes] length:[responseData length] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding] autorelease];
theXML = [theXML stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"<" withString:#"<"];
theXML = [theXML stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#">" withString:#">"];
theXML = [theXML stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:#"&" withString:#"&"];
NSLog(#" String :: %#", theXML);
[arrCountry removeAllObjects];
NSArray *arr = [theXML componentsSeparatedByString:#"<Your Main Parent>"];
NSLog(#"Count :: %d", [arr count]);
for(int i = 1; i < [arr count]; i++)
{
NSString *str = [arr objectAtIndex:i];
NSArray *arr1 = [str componentsSeparatedByString:#"<Table>"];
NSString *data = [arr1 objectAtIndex:1];
NSRange ranfrom = [data rangeOfString:#"</Table>"];
for(int i = 1; i < [arr1 count]; i++)
{
NSString *str1 = [arr1 objectAtIndex:i];
NSArray *arr12 = [str1 componentsSeparatedByString:#"<country>"];
NSString *data1 = [arr12 objectAtIndex:1];
NSRange ranfrom1 = [data1 rangeOfString:#"</country>"];
[arrCountry addObject:[data1 substringToIndex:ranfrom1.location]];
}
}
[connection release];
It'll help you.
Thanks.