Not getting expected string after parsing with NSXMLParser - string

Question

I'm parsing an xml which has data in between the tags like "S |nºconta|".I'm saving this as follows
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string {
foundText = (NSMutableString *)[string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
}
Where foundText is NSMutableString. But i'm not getting the complete data as "S |nºconta|" instead i'm getting just "nºconta|" where "S |" characters are removed.
Where in xml <Details>S |nºconta|</Details>

Answer 1

At a guess you have illegal characters in the XML - anything outside the regular ASCII range (0-127) should be escaped using a &#xx; or an equivalent named entity.

Answer 2

As far as I can see, it works just fine.
#implementation XMLDELEGATE
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qualifiedName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict
{
NSLog(#"didStartElement(%#)",elementName);
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName
{
NSLog(#"didEndElement(%#)",elementName);
}
-(void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string
{
NSLog(#"foundCharacters(%#)",string);
}
#end
#implementation AppDelegate
- (void)applicationDidFinishLaunching:(NSNotification *)aNotification
{
static const unsigned char bytes[] = "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?><Details>S |nºconta|</Details>";
NSXMLParser *p;
NSData *d = [NSData dataWithBytes:bytes length:sizeof(bytes)-1];
p = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:d];
NSLog(#"data=%#",d);
p.delegate = [XMLDELEGATE new];
[p parse];
}
#end
outputs this:
2014-03-01 15:35:07.272 xmlp2[35923:303] data=<3c3f786d 6c207665 7273696f 6e3d2231 2e302220 656e636f 64696e67 3d225554 462d3822 3f3e3c44 65746169 6c733e53 207c6ec2 ba636f6e 74617c3c 2f446574 61696c73 3e>
2014-03-01 15:35:07.273 xmlp2[35923:303] didStartElement(Details)
2014-03-01 15:35:07.273 xmlp2[35923:303] foundCharacters(S |n)
2014-03-01 15:35:07.273 xmlp2[35923:303] foundCharacters(ºconta|)
2014-03-01 15:35:07.273 xmlp2[35923:303] didEndElement(Details)
As I said in my other answer, you are probably not paying attention to the multiple calls to foundCharacters. It is your responsibility, as delegate, to glue the multiple chunks of string data together in each element (and !CDATA if that happens)