How to load XML file from Xcode navigator locally - iOS

Question

I know how to load an XML from a URL. But now I need to load an XML file locally.

I searched the internet but only found how to load XML file from "Documents Directory" (i.e. NSString *xmlPath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"MyFile" ofType:@"xml"];)

I don't know how to load XML file from Xcode navigator, like this:

Please help.

Thanks.

[How to load](http://stackoverflow.com/a/13062577/3408316) and [NSData to NSString](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6411965/converting-nsdata-to-nsstring-in-objective-c) — Okhan Okbay, Sep 19 '15 at 14:34
@pandarencodemaster My bad. Thanks for the links. I didn't know that this: `[[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"MyFile" ofType:@"xml"]` actually gets the file from Xcode navigator as well! I thought it only looks into the particular folder in the app's sandbox. Pleas correct me if I'm wrong. — Hyder, Sep 19 '15 at 14:44

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 19 '15 at 14:51

Thanks to @pandaren codemaster for guiding me to the links he posted in the comment.

The code,

NSString *path = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"adml" ofType:@"xml"];
NSData *data = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:path];
NSString *str = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@",str);

actually loads the adml.xml file from Xcode navigator locally, and converts into an NSString so we can verify the output too.

Problem solved.

Thanks again.

How to load XML file from Xcode navigator locally - iOS

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