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My current level files use xml and I'm using NSXmlParser to read them on the iPhone. But I think it's a real mess using the event based system. Is there some other way to read in XML files on the iPhone? Something more like C# XmlReader.
The problems I'm having is in regard to objects inside other objects (or elements if you will). Right now I'm creating an object stack using an NSArray, but it's cumbersome.
KOI
Member
Yes it is!
http://www.71squared.com/2009/05/iphone-game-programming-tutorial-6-tiled-map-class/
This page has also a lot of other goog tutorials.
bradparks
Member
@koi: thanks for the pointer to that nice tutorial site... but I think the XML tutorial you were trying to point to is here:
http://www.71squared.com/2009/05/processing-xml-on-the-iphone/
Thanks again!
Brad.
If you can edit the source, consider using a plist instead of straight xml. A plist is really just a subset of xml that can be easily loaded in objective C. For instance, you can load it directly into an NSDictionary or NSArray and use dot syntax to get at your items, something like (I'm on windows, so don't expect this to compile):
NSDictionary* dict = [NSDictionary initWithFile:@"myplist.plist"];
Note that values are stored as NSNumber, so to get them as, say, an int you'd have to do something like:
int i = [dict.myint intValue];
Codemattic
Moderator
plists are prefereable if you can keep all your tools on Mac OS. But if you are going to use XML, remember ObjectiveC can run any C or C++ code so you have a number of XML libraries you can choose from in addition to NSXMLParser. From a quick look at wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:XML_parsers
http://rapidxml.sourceforge.net/
http://www.grinninglizard.com/tinyxml/
http://vtd-xml.sourceforge.net/
http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/
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