NSXMLParser - encoding problems?

[wqin]

Hi,

I've been writing an app that interacts with a remote web service, and I've tried to parse a SOAP response.

I have stored the response as a data object, and then transfered it to a NSString before parsing it with NSXMLParser.
I replaced all &lt; &gt; &amp with <,>,&.

But the parser has been acting up, with a certain error: (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 100.)

Here's my log:
2009-07-16 15:45:19.096 Bus[3656:20b] didstartElement call soap:Envelope
2009-07-16 15:45:19.097 Bus[3656:20b] didstartElement call soap:Body
2009-07-16 15:45:19.099 Bus[3656:20b] ERROR:Operation could not be completed. (NSXMLParserErrorDomain error 100.)
2009-07-16 15:45:19.099 Bus[3656:20b] didstartElement call loginResponse
2009-07-16 15:45:19.100 Bus[3656:20b] didstartElement call s-gensym3
2009-07-16 15:45:19.100 Bus[3656:20b] foundCharacters <
2009-07-16 15:45:19.101 Bus[3656:20b] foundCharacters root
2009-07-16 15:45:19.102 Bus[3656:20b] foundCharacters >
...
The parser cannot recognize <root> as an Element name!!! and returns it as three separate entities.
It does this for all of <root>'s child elements also!

I think this and the error have something to do with &lt, &gt, &amp,
even though I converted them to <>& in the NSString. The parser obviously still recognizes the ampersand, despite my replacing them. I think something is up with the encoding.

If anybody could advise me if there is a quick fix or something I could do to bypass this?

Thanks in advance.

[wqin]

It turns out that the webservice escaped out all XML inside the SOAP body, although I still get error 100 , the app still runs fine, and I have since resolved this issue.