Parsing SOAP result using TouchXML in iOS SDK (iPad) - iphone

Question

I'm working on an iPad project that is using functions in a WebService.
Handling webservice connection, data etc works find. But i'm not able to parse the result SOAP using TouchXML. Getting the nodes out of the xml always returns 0 length.
The output xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <soap:Body> <LogOnResponse xmlns="http://coreservices.org/v1"> <LogOnResult> <Id>1c0e9ad0-a3be-4cd0-8f0d-0616a63a4e28</Id> <userId>2</userId> <user> <ID>2 <Name>Beheerder <emailAddress /> <cultureName>nl-NL</cultureName> </user> </LogOnResult> </LogOnResponse> </soap:Body></soap:Envelope>
parser code:
NSData *aData = [[NSData alloc] initWithBytes:[webData mutableBytes] length:[webData length]];
NSString *xmlData = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:aData encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSLog(#"%#", xmlData);
[xmlData release];
CXMLDocument *domUserIdentity = [[[CXMLDocument alloc] initWithData:aData options:0 error:nil] autorelease];
[aData release];
NSArray *nodesList = [domUserIdentity nodesForXPath:#"//LogOnResult" error:nil]; // 0 length
for (CXMLElement *resultElement in nodesList) {
for (int counter = 0; counter
NSString *elemName = [[resultElement childAtIndex:counter] name];
NSString * elemValue = [[[resultElement childAtIndex:counter] stringValue] stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet: [NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
[elemName release];
[elemValue release];
}
}
[nodesList release];
Any idea what did i do wrong?
Thank's alot in advance.
Inoel

Answer 1

Try using the NSXMLDocument, it should work as well as CXMLDocument. Here are some docs:
link

Answer 2

I recommend using an XPath Parser. You aren't doing anything too heavy, so the speed hit is well worth it. My personal choice is TFHpple. There are slightly faster and more precise solutions out there, but I find TFHpple's simplicity hard to beat.
Example:
NSData *data = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:#"example.html"];
// Create parser
xpathParser = [[TFHpple alloc] initWithXMLData:data];
NSArray *elements = [xpathParser search:#"//LogOnResult"];
TFHppleElement *element = [elements objectAtIndex:0];
// Get the text within the cell tag
NSString *content = [element content];
[xpathParser release];
[data release];
Obviously you'd have to write some code to save the parts you want. Looking at this data, I'd probably make a custom data holder class that you can access with properties. You can parse your XML into that and then save it as a property in the view controller that will be accessing it.
Happy coding!