Re: XML programming in Objective-C

FROM : Theo Hultberg
DATE : Mon Oct 04 18:58:08 2004

Iconara DOM is a pure Objective-C DOM framework, including the expat
parser and basic XPath-support. http://iconaradom.sf.net.

yours
Theo#


> Bruce Toback wrote:

>> On Sep 23, 2004, at 11:35 AM, Robin Berjon wrote:

>>> I've searched Google for XML parsers with ObjC wrappers (most
>>> notably expat) but it's unclear what the status of the various
>>> options are and what people would recommend. I have fairly simple
>>> needs at this point: DOM, SAX, and XPath mostly. I see that someone
>>> has packaged libxml as a framework, is that an option that people
>>> here have been using and recommend?

>> I'm wondering exactly what you need in an XML parser. Panther
>> includes NSXMLParser, which I've used successfully for a number of
>> projects. It's basically a SAX model. If you're just consuming XML
>> (as opposed to transcoding or transforming it), NSXMLParser might be
>> adequate.

>
> I have yet to play with it but it looks fine for SAXish processing
> (which represents a subset of what I need), but DOM and XPath support
> would be very helpful as well (and I'd rather avoid having to
> implement them myself). SAX is good at a number of XML-consumption
> tasks, but not all. I hear Tiger improves support but I can't wait.
>
> --
> Robin Berjon
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