Re: Converting from HTML
Following that link and pasting the code, I find it doesn't work correctly. It's replacing amp; with a space! All I'm trying to do is parse the RSS feed URL out of the head section of a document. I didn't think it'd be so difficult! As this app is going to be used on a specific site, I think I'll just do manual string replacements for now, as it seems the easiest solution. On 18 Oct 2008, at 00:22, Aurora Phoenix wrote: Hi DI... Depending on how heavy you need to understand the structure of the HTML, a simple parse using string chopping/ranges might be sufficient OR (personally I would prefer) use something like libxml2 / Xpath to grok the input. Note simple resolution of entities might not be sufficient, particularly because you seem to be grabbing URI/URL... If you are grabbing URL with intent of passing them on to the URL Loading System (NSURL*, NSHTTPURL*), you will on the back end also ensure that prior to passing the string itself is URLEncoded (e.g, replacing spaces with %20 and such). Someone else has posted the link to ThinkMac blog which has a snippet for cheap char entity resolution in Objective C ( http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2005/05/removing-entities-from-html-in-cocoa . html) Cheers and good luck! On 10/16/08 19:17 , Drarok Ithaqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i'm trying to find a way to convert an HTML-originated URL into one I can use in cocoa. Example input: link type=application/rss+xml rel=alternate href=/ search/uniqueamp;stuffamp;here / I know the URL that this data is fetched from, so I can prefix that to achieve a full URL again, but I need to convert the amp; into plain ampersands, but there could be all kinds of HTML characters in there. Is there a category on NSString out there I could use for this? I read somewhere that I could use an NSAttributedString and initWithHTML, but that leaves me with an empty string. I'm guessing because it's inside a head tag? Not sure. I'm also open to using something more intelligent than my current method of searching the string for link to find the rss feed, if there's perhaps an easier way that would also convert the HTML characters for me. Maybe webkit has something for me? I look forward to your replies, and you have my thanks in advance. - Drarok ___ 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/aurora.phoenix.draco%40gmail . com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting from HTML
On 17 Oct 2008, at 03:17, Drarok Ithaqua wrote: Hi all, i'm trying to find a way to convert an HTML-originated URL into one I can use in cocoa. Example input: link type=application/rss+xml rel=alternate href=/search/uniqueamp;stuffamp;here / I know the URL that this data is fetched from, so I can prefix that to achieve a full URL again, but I need to convert the amp; into plain ampersands, but there could be all kinds of HTML characters in there. Is there a category on NSString out there I could use for this? Please, please, please don't try and append the unescaped string to the base URL. Cocoa has a full NSURL API for this sort of thing, so instead do: NSURL *URL = [NSURL URLWithString:unescapedString relativeToURL:baseURL]; ___ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting from HTML
Hi DI... Depending on how heavy you need to understand the structure of the HTML, a simple parse using string chopping/ranges might be sufficient OR (personally I would prefer) use something like libxml2 / Xpath to grok the input. Note simple resolution of entities might not be sufficient, particularly because you seem to be grabbing URI/URL... If you are grabbing URL with intent of passing them on to the URL Loading System (NSURL*, NSHTTPURL*), you will on the back end also ensure that prior to passing the string itself is URLEncoded (e.g, replacing spaces with %20 and such). Someone else has posted the link to ThinkMac blog which has a snippet for cheap char entity resolution in Objective C ( http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2005/05/removing-entities-from-html-in-cocoa. html) Cheers and good luck! On 10/16/08 19:17 , Drarok Ithaqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, i'm trying to find a way to convert an HTML-originated URL into one I can use in cocoa. Example input: link type=application/rss+xml rel=alternate href=/ search/uniqueamp;stuffamp;here / I know the URL that this data is fetched from, so I can prefix that to achieve a full URL again, but I need to convert the amp; into plain ampersands, but there could be all kinds of HTML characters in there. Is there a category on NSString out there I could use for this? I read somewhere that I could use an NSAttributedString and initWithHTML, but that leaves me with an empty string. I'm guessing because it's inside a head tag? Not sure. I'm also open to using something more intelligent than my current method of searching the string for link to find the rss feed, if there's perhaps an easier way that would also convert the HTML characters for me. Maybe webkit has something for me? I look forward to your replies, and you have my thanks in advance. - Drarok ___ 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/aurora.phoenix.draco%40gmail. com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Converting from HTML
Hi all, i'm trying to find a way to convert an HTML-originated URL into one I can use in cocoa. Example input: link type=application/rss+xml rel=alternate href=/ search/uniqueamp;stuffamp;here / I know the URL that this data is fetched from, so I can prefix that to achieve a full URL again, but I need to convert the amp; into plain ampersands, but there could be all kinds of HTML characters in there. Is there a category on NSString out there I could use for this? I read somewhere that I could use an NSAttributedString and initWithHTML, but that leaves me with an empty string. I'm guessing because it's inside a head tag? Not sure. I'm also open to using something more intelligent than my current method of searching the string for link to find the rss feed, if there's perhaps an easier way that would also convert the HTML characters for me. Maybe webkit has something for me? I look forward to your replies, and you have my thanks in advance. - Drarok ___ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting from HTML
Try this http://www.thinkmac.co.uk/blog/2005/05/removing-entities-from-html-in-cocoa.html On 17/10/2008, at 13:17 , Drarok Ithaqua wrote: Hi all, i'm trying to find a way to convert an HTML-originated URL into one I can use in cocoa. Example input: link type=application/rss+xml rel=alternate href=/search/uniqueamp;stuffamp;here / I know the URL that this data is fetched from, so I can prefix that to achieve a full URL again, but I need to convert the amp; into plain ampersands, but there could be all kinds of HTML characters in there. Is there a category on NSString out there I could use for this? I read somewhere that I could use an NSAttributedString and initWithHTML, but that leaves me with an empty string. I'm guessing because it's inside a head tag? Not sure. I'm also open to using something more intelligent than my current method of searching the string for link to find the rss feed, if there's perhaps an easier way that would also convert the HTML characters for me. Maybe webkit has something for me? I look forward to your replies, and you have my thanks in advance. - Drarok ___ 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/nathan_day%40mac.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nathan Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepage.mac.com/nathan_day/ ___ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
