Kanna(鉋)

Kanna(鉋) is an XML/HTML parser for Mac OS X and iOS. (It was formerly known as Swift-HTML-Parser)

It was inspired by Nokogiri(鋸).

Features:

XPath 1.0 support for document searching
CSS3 selector support for document searching
Support for namespaces
Comprehensive test suite

Installation:

Swift 2.x

Three means of installation are supported:

#####CocoaPods ⚠️ CocoaPods (0.39 or later) is required.

Adding it to your Podfile:

use_frameworks!
pod 'Kanna', '~> 1.0.0'

#####Carthage Adding it to your Cartfile:

github "tid-kijyun/Kanna" ~> 1.0.0

In the project settings add $(SDKROOT)/usr/include/libxml2 to the "header search paths" field

#####Manual Installation

Add these files to your project:
Kanna.swift
CSS.swift
libxmlHTMLDocument.swift
libxmlHTMLNode.swift
libxmlParserOption.swift
Copy this folder to your project:
Modules
In the project settings add $(SRCROOT)/YOUR_PROJECT/Modules to the "Swift Compiler - Search Paths > Import Paths" field
In the target settings add $(SDKROOT)/usr/include/libxml2 to the Search Paths > Header Search Paths field

Note: With manual installation, this library doesn't need to be imported, or namespace-qualified in your code.

Synopsis:

import Kanna

let html = "<html>...</html>"

if let doc = Kanna.HTML(html: html, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
    print(doc.title)
    
    // Search for nodes by CSS
    for link in doc.css("a, link") {
        print(link.text)
        print(link["href"])
    }
    
    // Search for nodes by XPath
    for link in doc.xpath("//a | //link") {
        print(link.text)
        print(link["href"])
    }
}

let xml = "..."
if let doc = Kanna.XML(xml: xml, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) {
    let namespaces = [
                    "o":  "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office",
                    "ss": "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:spreadsheet"
                ]
    if let author = doc.at_xpath("//o:Author", namespaces: namespaces) {
        print(author.text)
    }
}

License: