Carrboro Creative Coworking

Info from Blake about the next Cocoa meetup:

Carrboro Cocoa Consortium Meetup - a regular iphone and cocoa developer event
When: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 @ 7pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking, 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510

Topic: iPhone XML & HTML Parsing with ElementParser
Speaker: Lee Buck
http://touchtank.wordpress.com/element-parser/

Let's face it: working with HTML is a total pain. Though a superset of XML, the evolution of the web has brought unique
challenges to developers who want to parse and manipulate HTML programatically. HTML is a world of unclosed tags, poorly composed data, and is, at best, a loosely interpreted specification. High level tools like Hpricot and Nokogiri have removed quite a bit of the sting from working with HTML -- provided you are blessed enough to be working on a platform like Ruby.

But what about Cocoa and Cocoa Touch? Apple offers us only two options: the NSXML family of classes and the low level libxml2
library. Each of these options can be painful -- they really want well-formed XML and don't offer high level query API's such as CSS selectors. We'll explore these existing options and introduce a new kid on the block: ElementParser.

ElementParser is a new XML & HTML parsing library designed to give you "just enough" parsing and querying magic to be productive with HTML on everyone's favorite mobile device.

Come join the Carrboro Cocoa Consortium as we spend an hour exploring the HTML & XML world on the Cocoa Touch platform and take a tour of the new ElementParser library.

As usual, we'll meet up before the meeting at 6pm @ Carrburrito's for some delicious Mexican food and geeky conversation.

Check out the Carrboro Cocoa Consortium Facebook page for more info.