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I have a table called SOAP_MONITORING in which i have RESPONSE_XML column which is CLOB datatype. In this column large xml string is stored. I want to get the node name and node value from this xml string. Here is my xml : <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"><soapenv:Body><ns:placeShopOrderResponse xmlns:ns="http://service.soap.CDRator.com"> <ns:return xmlns:ax2133="http://signup.data.soap.CDRator.com/xsd" xmlns:ax2134="http://core.signup.data.soap.CDRator.com/xsd" xmlns:ax2127="http://data.soap.CDRator.com/xsd"

I'm using NSXMLParser to parse an xml from a url (my code is almost exactly the same as here ) Some of the elements contain special characters like "á" which causes a word lik ándre to split into two (á and ndre). Here is my loadXMLByURL -(id) loadXMLByURL:(NSString *)urlString{ tickets = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init]; NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:urlString]; NSData *data = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:url]; parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:data]; parser.delegate = self; [parser parse]; return self;} I'm pretty sure it's because the encoding is not set (I think it needs