What's the best way to parse RSS/Atom feeds for an iPhone application?

Question

So I understand that there are a few options available as far as parsing straight XML goes: NSXMLParser, TouchXML from TouchCode, etc. That\'s all fine, and seems to work fi

Answer 1

take a look at apple's XML Performance sample -- which points to using libXML directly -- for performance and quicker updates to the display. Which may be important if you are working with very large feeds.

Answer 2

Here's my solution: a really simple yet powerful RSS parsing library: https://github.com/H2CO3/RSSKit

Answer 3

I came accross igasus project on sourceforge today. I haven't used it or really checked it, but perhaps it might help.

From their site: igagus is a web service for the iPhone that allows aggregation of RSS to be delivered in an iPhone friendly format.

Answer 4

Have you looked at TouchCode yet? I don't think it has an RSS processor, but it might give you a start. http://code.google.com/p/touchcode/