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As a developer, our job is to handle and manipulate data. Data often comes in several popular formats: raw data, JSON and XML.

In this training, let’s talk about parsing XML in Swift since many of you asked. You’ll learn:
+ How to construct XMLParser to parse XML
+ Download XML from a server asynchronously
+ Fetch XML data into Table View and Collection View

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CODE IN THIS COURSE
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class FeedParser: NSObject, XMLParserDelegate
{
// 2
private var rssItems: [RSSItem] = []

private var currentElement = ""
private var currentTitle: String = "" {
didSet {
currentTitle = currentTitle.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.whitespacesAndNewlines)
}
}
private var currentDescription: String = "" {
didSet {
currentDescription = currentDescription.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.whitespacesAndNewlines)
}
}

private var currentPubDate: String = "" {
didSet {
currentPubDate = currentPubDate.trimmingCharacters(in: CharacterSet.whitespacesAndNewlines)
}
}

private var parserCompletionHandler: (([RSSItem]) - Void)?

// 3
func parseFeed(url: String, completionHandler: (([RSSItem]) - Void)?) - Void
{
self.parserCompletionHandler = completionHandler

let request = URLRequest(url: URL(string: url)!)
let urlSession = URLSession.shared
let task = urlSession.dataTask(with: request) { (data, response, error) in
guard let data = data else {
if let error = error {
print(error)
}
return
}

// parse xml data
let parser = XMLParser(data: data)
parser.delegate = self
parser.parse()
}

task.resume()
}

// MARK: - XML Parser Delegate

// 4
func parser(_ parser: XMLParser, didStartElement elementName: String, namespaceURI: String?, qualifiedName qName: String?, attributes attributeDict: [String : String] = [:])
{
// we assign the name of the element to currentElement, if the item tag is found, we reset the temporary variables of title, description and pubdate for later use
currentElement = elementName
if currentElement == "item" {
currentTitle = ""
currentDescription = ""
currentPubDate = ""
}
}

// 5 - when the value of an element is found, this method gets called with a string representation of part of the characters of the current element

func parser(_ parser: XMLParser, foundCharacters string: String)
{
switch currentElement {
case "title": currentTitle += string
case "description" : currentDescription += string
case "pubDate": currentPubDate += string
default: break
}
}

// 6 - when we reach the closing tag /item is found, this method gets called
func parser(_ parser: XMLParser, didEndElement elementName: String, namespaceURI: String?, qualifiedName qName: String?)
{
if elementName == "item" {
let rssItem = RSSItem(title: currentTitle, description: currentDescription, pubDate: currentPubDate)
rssItems += [rssItem]
}
}

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