Cocoa Obj-C WebView how to display HTML string

Question

I have a string of HTML that was parsed by libxml2.dylib that looks like:

Hello,<br />\n<br />\nThis is almost HTML.<br />\n<br />\n

I've unsuccessfully tried to display certain strings parsed from the XML in a WebView; I'm hoping there's a simple way to do it such as how an HTML page is displayed in my Cocoa application:

HTMLView.h

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>
#import <WebKit/WebKit.h>

@interface htmlView : NSObject {

    IBOutlet WebView * webview;
}

-(IBAction) showHTML:(id) sender;

@end

HTMLView.m

#import "HTMLView.h"

@implementation htmlView

-(IBAction) showHTML:(id) sender

{
    [[webview mainFrame] loadRequest:
     [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:
      [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.example.com"]]];

 NSString * string = @"<br>test</br>";

[self loadHTMLString:string baseURL:(NSURL *)baseURL];

}
-(void)loadHTMLString:(NSString *)string baseURL:(NSURL *)baseURL {

}

@end

user23790 · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-27 07:06:58Z

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try this... [[aWebView mainFrame] loadHTMLString:aString baseURL:nil];

answered Apr 27, 2013 at 7:06

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Mario · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-27 06:49:56Z

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I've unsuccessfully tried to display certain strings parsed from the XML in a WebView

How did you try to display the strings and what was the problem? I think

-(void)loadHTMLString:(NSString *)string baseURL:(NSURL *)baseURL

Might be what you need...!?

Edit: You have to call the method on your webview! What you did now is implementing your own loadHTMLString method in your viewController. Which would be fine if it did anything and did call loadHTMLString on the webview at some point.

[self.webView loadHTMLString....]

I think you have to familiarise yourself a bit more with objective-c.

edited Apr 27, 2013 at 6:49

answered Apr 26, 2013 at 19:32

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Dick Faps Over a year ago

I tried that using this example (stackoverflow.com/questions/8456088/…), although I must not be using it correctly?

Mario Over a year ago

Well, how did you do it? Edit your question and show what you did

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