On May 9, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Markus Spoettl <ms_li...@shiftoption.com> wrote:
> On 5/9/13 6:26 PM, Jens Alfke wrote: >>> Yup. I had edge-case crashes too (fortunately reproducible one I knew the >>> right edge case), and spent hours tracking it down to reentrancy problems >>> in initWithHTML. Fortunately I could count on getting well-formed XML, and >>> like Jens all I needed was to extract plain text, so I changed my solution >>> to use NSXMLDocument and the crash went away. >> >> You actually don’t need well-formed X[H]TML to use NSXMLDocument. One of the >> option flags to the -init method tells it to run the ‘htmltidy’ preprocessor >> over the input, which will correct even the gnarliest hand-written tag-soup >> HTML into something the XML parser can handle. It’s extremely useful for >> handling random web content. Good to know. > Well, that's not entirely true, unfortunately. Although the documentation > suggests you can, NSXMLDocument -init.... will crash if the content you're > trying to feed it is sufficiently non-XML (say an ASCII text file). > > We get this all the time and it's a major pain. And good to know. Thanks! --Andy _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
