NSXMLParser clamps ampersand &

Question

I am parsing some HTML with NSXMLParser, and it encounters a parser error anytime it encounters an ampersand. I can filter out the ampersands before I parse them, but I would rather parse all that is.

This gives me error 68, NSXMLParserNAMERequiredError: name required.

My best guess is the character set problem. I'm a little vague in the world of character sets, so I think my ignorance will bite me in the ass. The source HTML uses charset iso-8859-1, so I use this code to initialize Parser:

NSString *dataString = [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSISOLatin1StringEncoding] autorelease];
NSData *dataEncoded = [[dataString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES] autorelease];
NSXMLParser *theParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:dataEncoded];

Any ideas?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

NSString , , (dataUsingEncoding), , :

NSString *dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data
                             encoding:NSISOLatin1StringEncoding];

NSData *dataEncoded = [dataString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding 
                                     allowLossyConversion:YES];

[dataString release];

NSXMLParser *theParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:dataEncoded];