So I am making an app that one part of it displays the users tweets in a table view. However there's something getting corrupted with some tweets such as its only showing a single character such as (") or an emoji character. In example if the tweet says:
RT @jakemillermusic: Everyone upload your pics that you took today during the ustream and caption it "follow @jakemillermusic #jakemiller"
when shown with NSLog it prints :
2013-04-03 00:34:30.476 ParsingXMLTutorial[3308:c07] RT @jakemillermusic: Everyone upload your pics that you took today during the ustream and caption it
2013-04-03 00:34:30.476 ParsingXMLTutorial[3308:c07] "
2013-04-03 00:34:30.477 ParsingXMLTutorial[3308:c07] follow @jakemillermusic #jakemiller
2013-04-03 00:34:30.478 ParsingXMLTutorial[3308:c07] "
Here's the URL I am using to fetch the XML format:
HERES THE PARSING CODE:
-(id) loadXMLByURL:(NSString *)urlString
{
_tweets = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString];
NSData *data = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url];
parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:data];
parser.delegate = self;
[parser parse];
return self;
}
- (void) parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string
{
//string = [string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@" " withString:@""]; // space
string = [string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@""]; // newline
string = [string stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\t" withString:@""];
currentNodeContent = (NSMutableString *) [string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
}
- (void) parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementname namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict
{
if ([elementname isEqualToString:@"status"])
{
currentTweet = [Tweet alloc];
isStatus = YES;
}
if ([elementname isEqualToString:@"user"])
{
isStatus = NO;
}
}
- (void) parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementname namespaceURI: (NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName
{
if (isStatus)
{
if ([elementname isEqualToString:@"created_at"])
{
currentTweet.dateCreated = currentNodeContent;
}
if ([elementname isEqualToString:@"text"])
{
currentTweet.content = currentNodeContent;
}
}
if ([elementname isEqualToString:@"status"])
{
[self.tweets addObject:currentTweet];
currentTweet = nil;
currentNodeContent = nil;
}
}
@end