ios swift nsxmlparser - parser "drops off" parsing rss feed

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I have implemented delegate for this and can successfully parse own xml documents and rss feeds.

However, now I have stumbled across what may be a broken rss feed where the code fails horribly.

This is how it starts:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <channel>
    <atom:link href

Calling p.parse()

I in parser(parser: NSXMLPARSER, foundCharacters string: String) get:

rss, newline, channel, newline

after which the parser drops out and does not return any new tags... (Stepping seems to land me in instruction set code, not ObjC or Swift)

...

Running https://validator.w3.org against the feed gives:

This feed does not validate

line 4, column 183: XML parsing error: :4:183: not well-formed (invalid token) [help] ... alse&cntnt01returnid=15&showtemplate=false" rel="self" type="applica ...

Could this be the reason for the problem?

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iosxmlrssnsxmlparser

1 Answers

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In my case I just had to replace & with & in the cases where the & was not part of entity but stood alone