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    copied!<p>I am parsing strings from a feed, converting them to URL, and storing them as a property of FeedItem. Initially, they are successfully converted to URL and stored, but later, when I access the property, it is nil.</p> <p>FeedItem.h</p> <pre><code>@interface FeedItem : NSObject @property (nonatomic, strong) NSString* author; @property (nonatomic, strong) NSURL* imageURL; @property (nonatomic, strong) NSString* datePublished; @end </code></pre> <p>Parser.m</p> <pre><code>- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qualifiedName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict { // Custom blog object initialized here if ([elementName isEqualToString:@"entry"]) { self.blogEntry = [[FeedItem alloc] init]; } // Parse image URL that accompanies some blog entries self.blogEntry.imageURL = [NSURL URLWithString:[attributeDict objectForKey:@"url"]]; if ([[NSURL URLWithString:[attributeDict objectForKey:@"url"]] isKindOfClass:[NSURL class]]) { NSLog( @"converted to a url" ); if ([self.blogEntry.imageURL isKindOfClass:[NSURL class]]) { NSLog(@"property of object is url"); }else if (!self.blogEntry.imageURL) { NSLog(@"url becomes nil"); }else{ NSLog(@"property of object is NOT url"); } } } </code></pre> <p>This prints "converted to a url" and "property of object is url" every time it should. However, later in the same file:</p> <pre><code>- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName { if([elementName isEqualToString:@"entry"]) { // An individual blog has been parsed and a pointer to it is added to the parsedResults array if ([self.blogEntry.imageURL isKindOfClass:[NSURL class]]) { NSLog( @"URL passed" ); }else if (!self.blogEntry.imageURL) { NSLog( @"is nil" ); }else{ NSLog(@"no luck"); } [self.parsedResults addObject:self.blogEntry]; } } </code></pre> <p>This prints "is nil" every time.</p> <p>Here is an example of one of the URLs being parsed: url='<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HlNeYKf6Jyk/URKJ0NzA_kI/AAAAAAAAADY/AAkM6mNITlo/s72-c/Ananya&apos;s+Illustration.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HlNeYKf6Jyk/URKJ0NzA_kI/AAAAAAAAADY/AAkM6mNITlo/s72-c/Ananya&apos;s+Illustration.jpg</a>'</p> <p>I know there can be issues if a URL has a special character, but because it is successful at first, I figured this shouldn't be the issue.</p> <p>I'm new to objective-c...what am I missing??</p>
 

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