Problem parsing Google weather data only for Paris

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I have created an app for weather reports by using this http://www.google.com/ig/api?weather=paris. It works well for all cities except Paris.

In my app I have a text field; if I type "Sydney", it will show the weather in Sydney, but if I type "Paris", it gives an error: NSXMLParserErrorDomain error:9. I don't know what it means. What could be the error? Any idea?

Careful with using the Google weather API. It's undocumented and is liable to change at any time, thus breaking your app. — sudo rm -rf, May 11 '11 at 18:42
**The Google weather API was shut down in 2012** -> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12145820/google-weather-api-gone/35943521 — John Slegers, Mar 11 '16 at 15:58

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '11 at 12:32

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According to Apple's documentation it has encountered an illegal character: NSXMLParserInvalidCharacterError = 9,

Make sure you correctly parse this as UTF-8

answered May 11 '11 at 12:32

Claus Broch

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but that app is working well for all cities.. i used cities like london,sydney,ooty,trichy,delhi.. it is working well for this cities but it is not working only for paris... – Aravindhan May 11 '11 at 12:36
@aravindhanarvi: "Paris, Île-de-France" contains characters you're not likely to find in "London", "New Delhi, Delhi", etc. – Wooble May 11 '11 at 12:38
Paris is defined in the feed as ""Paris, Île-de-France" -- do the other cities' data contain UTF-8 characters like "Î"? – Matt Gibson May 11 '11 at 12:39
@wooble: i am referring .. and like that.. – Aravindhan May 11 '11 at 12:42
@Aravindhanarvi: I suggest you actually read the contents of the link you posted. The parser needs to be able to read the whole thing, and since it's utf-8 encoded you can't treat it like it's ASCII. – Wooble May 11 '11 at 12:44

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 11 '11 at 12:34

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It seems that XML you are parsing contains some UTF-8 characters, but XML does not have proper XML declaration for UTF-8.

Make sure you configure your parser correctly.

answered May 11 '11 at 12:34

Peter Knego

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Problem parsing Google weather data only for Paris

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