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Get readable xml data with greek characters (UTF8, HTML numeric character reference)

Written by angeloson June 17, 2013

What is your situation? Ok, let me tell you mine and probably you will find similarities. I get input data (strings) from a web service of a Public Greek Organization. The web service gets an xml document. There are 2 possible formats in xml: 1. The xml document is in UTF8 encoding If the

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Getting xml data from a web service (Part 1 – AFNetworking 101)

Written by angeloson April 24, 2013

Lets say that we are in a situation that an external source offer as web service a useful xml feed. Our iOS app can use this feed in order to present various data or calculate new values based on that data. I want to get the xml data, usually we have to visit a specific

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