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Mastering Swift

By : Jon Hoffman
Book Image

Mastering Swift

By: Jon Hoffman

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Mastering Swift
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Parsing XML documents


For parsing XML documents, perform the following steps:

  1. Create a class that will conform to the NSXMLParaseDelegate protocol. Let's name the class MyXMLParser. The MyXMLParser class definition will look like this:

    class MyXMLParser: NSObject, NSXMLParserDelegate {
    
    }
  2. Next, we will need to add three properties that will be used by the parser while it is parsing the document. These three properties are as follows:

    • books: This property will be an optional array that will contains the list of books defined in the XML document

    • book: This will be an optional instance of the Book class that represents the current book being parsed within the XML document

    • elementData: This will be an instance of the string class that contains the value of the current element that is being parsed

  3. Add the properties to the MyXMLParaser class with the following code:

    var books: [Book]?
    var book: Book?
    var elementData = ""
  4. Let's add the parseXmlString method that will be used to start the NSXMLParser:

    func...