In XML file, i have this symbol "&" in an element in iOS

Question

In XML File, i have this symbol in middle of element like below showing code.

<title>CHAIRMAN BOB LIEBER INTERVIEWED BY CITY &amp; STATE</title>

once i read this content, i will get STATE only. So how to solve this issue to get like this, CHAIRMAN BOB LIEBER INTERVIEWED BY CITY & STATE

How are you reading it? Is it plain XML or a plist? – Wain Jan 09 '14 at 13:42 — Wain, Jan 09 '14 at 13:42

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 09 '14 at 14:11

I had same issue in my application

NSString* contents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:LINK_EVENTS_XML] encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:nil];
// You can pre-process(replace certain characters, ...) content of xml in here.

NSData* xml = [contents dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSXMLParser *nsXmlParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:data];
// create and init our delegate
XMLParser *parser = [[XMLParser alloc] initXMLParser];

// set delegate
[nsXmlParser setDelegate:parser];

// parsing...
BOOL success = [nsXmlParser parse]; if (success)
{
    NSLog(@"No errors - event count : %i", [parser.events count]);
    // get array of users here
    //  NSMutableArray *users = [parser users];

    self.eventsArray= parser.events;
    [self.tblEvents reloadData];
}
else
{
    NSLog(@"Error parsing document!");
}

I figured it had something to do with encoding.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 09 '14 at 14:33

I Found answer by myself just append the strings.

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string
{
    if (!currentStringValue)
    {
        currentStringValue = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
    }
    else
    {
    [currentStringValue appendString: [string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]]];

    }

}

In XML file, i have this symbol "&" in an element in iOS

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