How to get attributes from an element in XML

Question

I have constructed an XML tree structure of an XML file. I am able to trace the entire tree.

When i want to retrieve the attributes of an element, it is returning as NSXMlNode of kind NSXMLAttributeKind. How can i extract the key value pairs in the attribute node.

Answer 1

The name and value of a NSXMLNode are given by methods name and stringValue respectively. For an attribute node, these are the attibute name and value.

The attributes of a NSXMLElement are given by method attributes, or a particular attribute can be accessed by name with method attributeForName:.

NSXMLNode *attr = [element attributeForName: @"data"];
NSString *name = [node name];
NSString *value = [node stringValue];

for( NSXMLNode *node in [element attributes] ) {
    NSString *name = [node name];
    NSString *value = [node stringValue];
}