Need advice on parsing information techniques

[Esko2300]

IM wondering what is the correct way to parse information, using a NSURLConnection and its delegates, and then loading it up to the view within the object i created and not on the viewController. I orginally created a new NSObject for my parser and then inside the parser i would manipulate the view through the delegate to get my desired results. That was my first application, now im thinking it might be more efficant to just place the starting parsing function and its delegates inside the viewcontroller and then manipulate the view as needed. Any insights into which would be a more efficant way of doing this will be really helpfull

[smithdale87]

Here's how I approach this:

I always create a custom subclass of NSXMLParser that will also be the delegate for itself. All of the parsing logic is self-contained within this class.

I create a custom object to store the information from within the feed. For example

<EventList>
   <Event id="1">
      <Name>Event1</Name>
      <Time>Right Now</Time>
      <Location>Somewhere</Location>
      ...
   </Event>
   <Event id="2">
      ...
   </Eevnt>
</EventList>

In this example, I would create a custom object "Event" that would have properties for ID, Time, Location and wahtever else.

So during parsing, I would populate an array with all of these custom objects.
In my parser class, I would make that array a property so that it can be accessed from elsewhere.

After parsing, I take the array of custom objects that was parsed from the xml parser class. I then pass that array around to any view controller classes that need access to the data.

Edit: Of course my example is XML but this approach can be extrapolated to any type of format.

[Esko2300]

Well your method is what i do when i need to load up the viewcontroller and it works fine. I have a struct with a few arrays that hold the title's , inventory number's ect for all my variables. But my problem lies when grabbing more data for the user, the user can have up to and more 1000 plus objects. What i do is parse mabye 20 objects at a time and at the end of my tableview i have a row if pressed will parse more information(sort of like in the mail app). So when i need to grab more info ive already loaded the viewcontroller im already in, which is why i need to be able to reload the data within the parser when i grab more data. I already have this working fine cause i have an instance of a tableview,which i set to whichever viewcontrollers tableview when loaded, within the struct im using to populate the tableview within the controller. But im pretty sure this is not a efficiant way of completing this process