How do i convert NSAttributedString into HTML string?

26
votes

As the title tells,now i can simple convert HTML into NSAttributedString with initWithHTML:documentAttributes: , but what i want to do here is reverse. Is there any 3rd party library to achieve this?

   @implementation NSAttributedString(HTML)
-(NSString *)htmlForAttributedString{
    NSArray * exclude = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"doctype",
                         @"html",
                         @"head",
                         @"body",
                         @"xml",
                         nil
                         ];
    NSDictionary * htmlAtt = [NSDictionary
                              dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:NSHTMLTextDocumentType,
                              NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute,
                              exclude,
                              NSExcludedElementsDocumentAttribute,
                              nil
                              ];
    NSError * error;
    NSData * htmlData = [self dataFromRange:NSMakeRange(0, [self length])
                               documentAttributes:htmlAtt error:&error
                         ];
        //NSAttributedString * htmlString = [[NSAttributedString alloc]initWithHTML:htmlData documentAttributes:&htmlAtt];
    NSString * htmlString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:htmlData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    return htmlString;
}
@end
2
htmlcocoansattributedstring
The title asks how to convert HTML into NSAttributeString, while the question does vice-versa. - Eimantas
What exactly is the problem with the code you've posted? It should work. - omz

2 Answers

45
votes

Use dataFromRange:documentAttributes: with the document type attribute (NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute) set to HTML (NSHTMLTextDocumentType):

NSAttributedString *s = ...;
NSDictionary *documentAttributes = @{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute: NSHTMLTextDocumentType};    
NSData *htmlData = [s dataFromRange:NSMakeRange(0, s.length) documentAttributes:documentAttributes error:NULL];
NSString *htmlString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:htmlData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
7
votes

This is a swift 4 conversion of @omz answer, hope is useful to anyone landing here

extension NSAttributedString {
    var attributedString2Html: String? {
        do {
            let htmlData = try self.data(from: NSRange(location: 0, length: self.length), documentAttributes:[.documentType: NSAttributedString.DocumentType.html]);
            return String.init(data: htmlData, encoding: String.Encoding.utf8)
        } catch {
            print("error:", error)
            return nil
        }
    }
}