NSXMLParser rss issue NSXMLParserInvalidCharacterError

Question

NSXMLParserInvalidCharacterError # 9

This is the error I get when I hit a weird character (like quotes copied and pasted from word to the web form, that end up in the feed). The feed I am using is not giving an encoding, and their is no hope for me to get them to change that. This is all I get in the header:

< ?xml version="1.0"?> < rss version="2.0">

What can I do about illegal characters when parsing feeds? Do I sweep the data prior to the parse? Is there something I am missing in the API? Has anyone dealt with this issue?

Answer 1

NSString *dataString = [[[NSString alloc] initWithData:webData encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding] autorelease];

NSData *data = [dataString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSXMLParser *parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:data];

Fixed my problems...