On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 3:11 PM, R <r4eem...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new and in the process of learning Objective-C and Cocoa. > > I want to take some raw XML data, isolate, and convert to a string. I seem > to be able to capture the data I want, but cannot seem to get into a string > format. Actually, I will want in a NSMutableString format… but am keeping > things simple for now. > > Here is an excerpt of my code: > > The problem is at the end of the code below…. the string findAlerts is > empty. The NSXMLElement specificAlert prints correctly.
... > myGames=[[gameStatusXML nodesForXPath:@"//alerts" error:&error]retain]; The alerts element in the document you pointed to is: <alerts text="Final score in Bronx: NY Yankees 6, Detroit 2" brief_text="At NYY: Final - NYY 6, DET 2" type="status"/> > findAlerts=[specificAlert stringValue]; // attempting to create a > string -stringValue returns the value of any text-node children, but the alerts node has no such children. Try using -attributes to get an array of all the attributes, or -attributeForName: to get one of them. sherm-- -- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
