CData Not parsing

[Prarik]

First of all thanks for creating this great parser that helped me a lot.

Now i know that CData means you have to ignore while parsing, but in case i need to parse it then how can i do it?

I found one method in NSXMLParserDelegate and i implemented it as below. The problem is how to place the string parsed exactly where it belongs.

-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCDATA:(NSData *)CDATABlock
{
NSString *someString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:CDATABlock encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
// Build the text value
[self.textInProgress appendString:someString];
NSLog(@"-------CData String %@",someString);
}

[amarcadet]

Hi, sorry for the delay. I assume that you have found a solution by now.

Would you mind to share it or open a PR with it?

I am trying to clean my issues and give that repository more attention than during the past.

[Prarik]

Actually i have implemented the above method nothing new.

But sure i want to share following method which i used to clean-up the NSDictionary and generate the better output of the XML.

1. First parse the XML using XMLReader.
2. Than pass that dictionary into following method and compare before and after clean-up dictionary.
3. I have changed NSString *const kXMLReaderTextNodeKey = @"temp"; in XMLReader.

#define kXMLDefaultKey @"text"
/**
 *  This method is used to clean up dictionary which we get after XML parsing
 *
 *  @param XMLDictionary Dictionary on which we want to perform cleanup
 *
 *  @return Cleaned dictionary
 */
+ (NSMutableDictionary *)cleanUpXMLDictionary:(NSMutableDictionary *)XMLDictionary
{
    for (NSString *key in [XMLDictionary allKeys]) {
        // get the current object for this key
        id object = [XMLDictionary objectForKey:key];

        if ([object isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
            if ([[object allKeys] count] == 1 &&
                [[[object allKeys] objectAtIndex:0] isEqualToString:kXMLDefaultKey] &&
                ![[object objectForKey:kXMLDefaultKey] isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
                // this means the object has the key "text" and has no node
                // or array (for multiple values) attached to it.
                [XMLDictionary setObject:[object objectForKey:kXMLDefaultKey] forKey:key];
            }
            else {
                // go deeper
                [self cleanUpXMLDictionary:object];
            }
        }
        else if ([object isKindOfClass:[NSArray class]]) {
            // this is an array of dictionaries, iterate
            for (id inArrayObject in (NSArray *)object) {
                if ([inArrayObject isKindOfClass:[NSDictionary class]]) {
                    // if this is a dictionary, go deeper
                    [self cleanUpXMLDictionary:inArrayObject];
                }
            }
        }
    }

    return XMLDictionary;
}