how to parse xml response in NSDictionary in iPhone - ios

Question

I am trying to parse xml response and want data in NSDictionary.how can I get data in dictionary instead of NSMutableArray. Please help me ,getting response like :
<NewDataSet>
<Table>
<ID>105</ID>
<pk3>Apr 05, 2013</pk3>
<YEAR>2013</YEAR>
<TIME>09:10:46 PM</TIME>
</Table>
</NewDataSet>
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You can try with this..
.h /////////////////
#interface LoginWithTauky:UIViewController<NSXMLParserDelegate,NSURLConnectionDelegate>
{
NSXMLParser *xmlParser;
NSMutableString *soapResults;
BOOL xmlResults;
}
.m //////////////
-(void)Viewdidload
{
xmlParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:XMLdata];
[xmlParser setDelegate: self];
[xmlParser setShouldResolveExternalEntities: YES];
[xmlParser parse];
}
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *) namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName
attributes: (NSDictionary *)attributeDict
{
NSLog(#"fsdfsd");
if( [elementName isEqualToString:#"Table"]||[elementName isEqualToString:#"ID"]||[elementName isEqualToString:#"pk3"]||[elementName isEqualToString:#"YEAR"]||[elementName isEqualToString:#"TIME"])
{
if(!soapResults)
{
soapResults = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
}
xmlResults = YES;
}
}
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string
{
if( xmlResults )
{
[soapResults appendString: string];
NSLog(#"soap result %#",soapResults);
}
}
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName
{
if( [elementName isEqualToString:#"Table"])
{
xmlResults = FALSE;
[user_idArray addObject:soapResults];
soapResults = nil;
}
if( [elementName isEqualToString:#"ID"])
{
xmlResults = FALSE;
[IDArray addObject:soapResults];
soapResults = nil;
}
if( [elementName isEqualToString:#"pk3"])
{
xmlResults = FALSE;
[IDArray addObject:soapResults];
soapResults = nil;
}
if( [elementName isEqualToString:#"YEAR"])
{
xmlResults = FALSE;
[IDArray addObject:soapResults];
soapResults = nil;
}
if( [elementName isEqualToString:#"TIME"])
{
xmlResults = FALSE;
[IDArray addObject:soapResults];
soapResults = nil;
}
}

Answer 2

This works fine , i have tested it. Check it out
-(IBAction)parseTheXml:(id)sender
{
NSString * mystr =[[NSString alloc]initWithFormat:#"<NewDataSet>"
"<Table>"
"<ID>105</ID>"
"<pk3>Apr 05, 2013</pk3>"
"<YEAR>2013</YEAR>"
"<TIME>09:10:46 PM</TIME>"
"</Table>"
"</NewDataSet>" ];
NSData * mydata =[mystr dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
if(!parser)
parser =[[NSXMLParser alloc]initWithData:mydata];
[parser setDelegate:self];
[parser setShouldResolveExternalEntities:YES];
BOOL success= [parser parse];
if(success)
{
NSLog(#"SUCCESS");
}
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict
{
NSLog(#"the tag is %#",elementName);
if(!([elementName isEqualToString:#"Table"] ||[elementName isEqualToString:#"NewDataSet"]))
{
if(!dataDict)
dataDict =[[NSMutableDictionary alloc]init];
datastring =[[NSMutableString alloc]init];
}
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string
{
datastring = [NSMutableString stringWithFormat:#"%#",string];
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName
{
if(!([elementName isEqualToString:#"Table"] ||[elementName isEqualToString:#"NewDataSet"]))
{
if([elementName isEqualToString:#"VideoThumbnail"])
NSLog(#"the string is : %#",datastring);
[dataDict setObject:datastring forKey:elementName];
}
}
it will give you dictionary like this :
2013-12-05 16:24:05.959 parsingXML[3305:c07] the string we get is {
ID = 105;
TIME = "09:10:46 PM";
YEAR = 2013;
pk3 = "Apr 05, 2013";
}