Comments on: TBXML – XML parsing on the iPhone

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:13:16 +0000

Hi Mike will you please provide sample code for TBXML Parsing.
Thanks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:55:22 +0000

Hi Mike

I am new to objective c and xcode so this might be a stupid question.

I find the TBXML examples self explanatory but cannot get it running. It seems that whatever i try to do i get a “EXC_BAD_ACCESS”. I also tried the bug fix posted on the tbxml website but it didn’t help.

By: russell

russell — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:07:55 +0000

What I want to do, is allow a user to see the latest titles from the xml and click on them and it slides to the story.

I thought was simple but as I am finding VERY hard

By: mike

mike — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:15:24 +0000

@russell, what is it you are trying to do or need an example of?

Mike

By: russell

russell — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:11:10 +0000

Would really like a How-To on this, as the examples they give just suck.

I need something that will work with wordpress xml.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:14:05 +0000

Mike,

That will be great. Thanks

Simon

By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:18:29 +0000

Hi Simon. I’m in San Francisco at the moment on business, but I’ll get something to you over the weekend to see if it helps :o)

Mike

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:18:30 +0000

Hi Mike,

Would you be willing to share (run through) the updated parseMapFile method. As I’m struggling to implement TBXML. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Simon

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 23:08:50 +0000

Lol SLQ Seems so obvious now. Thanks

By: mike

mike — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:55:41 +0000

Hi Scott, sorry, missed your post until now.

When I was using the KissXML and unpacked layer data in my tile map it was taking around 20 seconds to process all the map information. Since moving to TBXML and using gzipped data, the load and process time is down to 600ms.

Now not all of that was down to TBXML. Using gzipped layer data for example is a big speed increase and that could be done with KissXML if you implemented your own unzip functions.

I also made other optimizations in the code that was taking the XML data and processing it i.e. creating object instances and doors in my map. Those also made a real difference.

Whilst this could be done with NSXMLParser, KissXML etc, the thing I love about TBXML is that it is such a simple API and there is no fat with it. As this is all I need TBXML fits my needs perfectly.

Mike