Converting XML to HTML

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I have made a 'RSS Feed' app through parsing XML. Now I want to load the content into a UIWebView within a detail view, but not as a generic browser. I know that HTML content can be loaded in a UIWebView, so I want to convert the XML feed's content to HTML content and load it in the web view.

How could this be done?

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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Generally, you can convert XML to XHTML using XSLT.

Unfortunately, as the following SO questions show, using the existing libxslt (and having a solution fully on the client) is not allowed on iOS for some reason. Or at least, has not been allowed in the past -- no idea if this is still true for iOS 4.3+.

Version of XSLT in iPhone

Alternative to NSXMLDocument on the iPhone for XSLT purposes

How do I include libxslt in my iPhone app?

No XSLTProcessor() support in Safari?

You may need to implement a server-side solution. (Which might not necessarily be a bad thing, since doing the work server-side means faster clients)

edited May 23 '17 at 12:26

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answered Mar 24 '11 at 07:45

Shaggy Frog

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Another possibility is the recently released Saxon-CE javascript implementation of the Saxon XSLT engine http://www.saxonica.com/ce/download.xml. I've used some of the sites that are implemented with it on iOS Safari and they seem to work acceptably. – nine9ths Nov 08 '12 at 05:04

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Nov 08 '12 at 04:55

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The RSS should have a "link" tag for every feed, which (link) holds the URL of the specific news tag. You can just load the link on a uiWebView.

edited Nov 08 '12 at 04:55

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answered Oct 30 '11 at 15:06

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Converting XML to HTML

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