> On Nov 23, 2014, at 1:06 PM, Diederik Meijer | Ten Horses
> <diede...@tenhorses.com> wrote:
>
> When I just pull in the feed’s contents using a NSURLConnection, it will show
> up on some, but not all, devices.
What does "show up" mean in this case? Is there an error? If so, what is it?
> When I try to log the response data, by creating a string that I init with
> the downloaded data and NSUTF8StringEncoding, the log will show a null
> string. So putting the downloaded data into a string using UTF8 doesn’t work.
UTF-8 is a completely different encoding.
> I validated the feed’s XML and got no errors..
It's valid XML, but it's got some problems as an RSS feed; take a look at
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.taxpublications.deloitte.co.uk%2Ftis%2Fdtp.nsf%2Fpub1.xml
<http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=https://www.taxpublications.deloitte.co.uk/tis/dtp.nsf/pub1.xml>
These are mostly minor, like nonstandard extra elements, but it's also got
problems with its date formatting, and also the server reports the Content-Type
is ASCII while the XML says it's ISO-8859-1.
If NSXMLParser is having trouble with the encoding, one problem I've seen
before is documents that claim to be ISO-8859-1 while actually being WinLatin,
which is a superset with extra characters defined. (The Cocoa encoding name for
this is NSWindowsCP1252StringEncoding, IIRC.)
(I spent four years of my life immersed in RSS feed parsing, and acquired a
solid contempt for the ability of the average web developer to construct a
valid feed. You would not believe how many messed-up feeds there are in the
real world.)
—Jens
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