title: XML Parsing issue in Xcode?
body: <p>I am making a mac application, and I need it to parse a local xml file and display it into a tableView. For some reason, I get a blank row in my tableView, which makes no sense, as it has found characters that are in my xml. Here is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>- (void)parserDidStartDocument:(NSXMLParser *)parser{
      NSLog(@"found file and started parsing");
  }
  
  - (void)parseXMLFileAtURL:(NSString *)URL
  {
      //you must then convert the path to a proper NSURL or it won't work
      NSURL *xmlURL = [NSURL URLWithString:URL];
  
      // here, for some reason you have to use NSClassFromString when trying to alloc NSXMLParser, otherwise you will get an object not found error
      // this may be necessary only for the toolchain
  
      rssParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:xmlURL];
  
  
      // Set self as the delegate of the parser so that it will receive the parser delegate methods callbacks.
      [rssParser setDelegate: self];
      // Depending on the XML document you're parsing, you may want to enable these features of NSXMLParser.
      [rssParser setShouldProcessNamespaces:NO];
      [rssParser setShouldReportNamespacePrefixes:NO];
      [rssParser setShouldResolveExternalEntities:NO];
      [rssParser parse];
  }
  
  - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser parseErrorOccurred:(NSError *)parseError {
      NSString * errorString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Unable to download XML feed (Error code %i )", [parseError code]];
      NSLog(@"Error parsing XML: %@", errorString);
  }
  
  - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict{
      //NSLog(@"found this element: %@", elementName);
      currentElement = [elementName copy];
  
      if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"event"]) {
          // clear out our story item caches...
          item = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init];
          date = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
          opponent = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
          location = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
          time = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
          games = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
  
      }
  
  }
  
  - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName{
      NSLog(@"ended element: %@", elementName);
  
      if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"event"]) {
          // save values to an item, then store that item into the array...
          [item setObject:date forKey:@"date"];
          [item setObject:opponent forKey:@"opponent"];
          [item setObject:location forKey:@"location"];
          [item setObject:time forKey:@"time"];
          [item setObject:games forKey:@"games"];
          NSMutableArray *stories = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
          [stories addObject:[item copy]];
  
          [arrayController addObject:[NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
                                      date, @"date", 
                                      opponent, @"opponent",
                                      location, @"location",
                                      time, @"time",
                                      games, @"games"
                                      , nil]];
  
      }
  
  }
  
  - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string{
      //NSLog(@"found characters: %@", string);
      // save the characters for the current item...
  
      if ([date isEqualToString:@"date"]) {
          [date appendString:string];
      } else if ([opponent isEqualToString:@"opponent"]) {
          [opponent appendString:string];
      } else if ([location isEqualToString:@"location"]) {
          [location appendString:string];
      } else if ([time isEqualToString:@"time"]) {
          [time appendString:string];
      } else if ([games isEqualToString:@"games"]) {
          [games appendString:string];
      }
  }
  
  - (void)parserDidEndDocument:(NSXMLParser *)parser {
      NSLog(@"all done!");
      [tabelview reloadData];
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When i remove my adding part, where it adds item to the arraycontroller, and add </p>
  
  <p><code>[arrayController addObject:stories];</code> I get a buch of <code>('s</code></p>
  
  <p>If there is anything else you need, do not just down-vote, and instead tell me. Thanks!</p>
  
  <p>Here is my xml:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?&gt;
  &lt;xmlData&gt;
      &lt;event&gt;
          &lt;date&gt;date here&lt;/date&gt;
          &lt;opponent&gt;opponent here&lt;/opponent&gt;
          &lt;location&gt;location here&lt;/location&gt;
          &lt;time&gt;time here&lt;/time&gt;
          &lt;games&gt;games here&lt;/games&gt;
      &lt;/event&gt;
      &lt;event&gt;
          &lt;date&gt;date here&lt;/date&gt;
          &lt;opponent&gt;opponent here&lt;/opponent&gt;
          &lt;location&gt;location here&lt;/location&gt;
          &lt;time&gt;time here&lt;/time&gt;
          &lt;games&gt;games here&lt;/games&gt;
      &lt;/event&gt;
      &lt;event&gt;
          &lt;date&gt;date here&lt;/date&gt;
          &lt;opponent&gt;opponent here&lt;/opponent&gt;
          &lt;location&gt;location here&lt;/location&gt;
          &lt;time&gt;time here&lt;/time&gt;
          &lt;games&gt;games here&lt;/games&gt;
      &lt;/event&gt;
      &lt;event&gt;
          &lt;date&gt;date here&lt;/date&gt;
          &lt;opponent&gt;opponent here&lt;/opponent&gt;
          &lt;location&gt;location here&lt;/location&gt;
          &lt;time&gt;time here&lt;/time&gt;
          &lt;games&gt;games here&lt;/games&gt;
      &lt;/event&gt;
  &lt;/xmlData&gt;
  </code></pre>