NSXML didStartElement method not being called - ios

Question

Iv'e set my h as the delegate and I'm calling the "setDelegate:self" method on my xml parser.
here is my code.
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict {
elementName = element;
if ([elementName isEqualToString:#"offer"]) {
offersDictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
offerTitle = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
offerDay = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
offerDet = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
NSLog(#"PARSER didStartElement method!");
}
}
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string {
if ([element isEqualToString:#"offerTitle"]) {
[offerTitle appendString:string];
}
if ([element isEqualToString:#"day"]) {
[offerDay appendString:string];
}
if ([element isEqualToString:#"offerDetail"]) {
[offerDet appendString:string];
}
}
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName {
if ([elementName isEqualToString:#"offer"]) {
[offersDictionary setObject:offerTitle forKey:#"offerTitle"]; NSLog(#"offerTitle:%#",offerTitle);
[offersDictionary setObject:offerDet forKey:#"offerDetail"]; NSLog(#"offerDet:%#",offerDet);
[offersDictionary setObject:offerDay forKey:#"day"]; NSLog(#"OfferDay:%#",offerDay);
NSLog(#"DidEndELEMENT");
//[offersArray addObject:[offersDictionary copy]];
}
}
I've set "NSlog" in my didStartElement and in my didEndElement methods, but I only get output from the didEndElement.
I'm calling the "parse" method of the NSXML from the viewDidLoad method.
here is my viewDidLoad method.
- (void)viewDidLoad
{
[super viewDidLoad];
//alloc and init the array
offersArray = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
//create NSUrl with the xml file
NSURL *xmlUrl = [NSURL URLWithString:#"http://mydomain.org/dir/dir/file.xml"];
//alloc and init the xml parser with the data of the file
xmlParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc]initWithContentsOfURL:xmlUrl];
//set some methods on the xml parser
[xmlParser setDelegate:self];
[xmlParser setShouldProcessNamespaces:NO];
[xmlParser setShouldReportNamespacePrefixes:NO];
[xmlParser setShouldResolveExternalEntities:NO];
//create a 'success gate' of the 'parse' method
BOOL xmlParseSuccess = [xmlParser parse];
if (xmlParseSuccess) {
NSLog(#"Successed Parsing! array Has %lu elements.", (unsigned long)offersArray.count);
} else if (!xmlParseSuccess) {
NSLog(#"Error Parsing!");
}
// Do any additional setup after loading the view.
}
Why is the didStartElement method not being called?

Answer 1

Here is your issue:
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser
didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName
namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI
qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName
attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict {
/*
Your setting elementName to element. So whatever the
value of 'element' is, it will compare to #"offer".
It seems that the value of 'element' is not equal
to #"offer". You should not be Comment this line out
and it should work fine.
*/
elementName = element;
if ([elementName isEqualToString:#"offer"]) {
offersDictionary = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
offerTitle = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
offerDay = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
offerDet = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
NSLog(#"PARSER didStartElement method!");
}
}