A forgiving HTML SAX Parser for iOS inspired by NSXMLParser.

Axt is the German word for Ono (斧).

Axt is highly inspired by NSXMLParser which is great for parsing XML but not for HTML. HTML is often not well-formed which makes it not suitable for NSXMLParser. In this cases AXHTMLParser provides a robust and reliable behavior.

Why a SAX parser?

SAX parser in general need less memory and are faster than DOM-style parser which makes them better suitable where memory and speed is key.

Installation

Podfile

pod 'Axt'

Features

• Designed to forgive not well-formed HTML (unlike NSXMLParser)
• Inspired by NSXMLParser (same methods and delegate protocol)
• Powered by libxml
• Complete documentation
• Unit tested:

Usage

#import "Axt.h"

NSInputStream *stream = [NSInputStream inputStreamWithFileAtPath:...];
AXHTMLParser *parser = [[AXHTMLParser alloc] initWithStream:stream];
parser.delegate = ... // set the delegate

BOOL success = [parser parse];

Unit Test

Run the unit test with xctool

xctool -find-target AxtTests -sdk iphonesimulator test

Contact

Matthias Hochgatterer

Github: https://github.com/brutella/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/brutella

License

Axt is available under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for more info.