NSMutableArray loses data - objective-c

Question

There is lots of help regarding this issue already here but none of the implementations have worked. i.e.: creating (nonatomic, retain) + using self.myArray, Using a dictionary instead of arrays.
What I am doing is parsing information from an xml document, filter out unwanted entries, and try to dynamically store the information for that entry.
When I try to store the info into 2 mutableArrays the information of ONE of them gets lost when trying to access the info outside of my 'parser' method.
Some background code. Not full code. (this also has the dictionary as well)
.h
#interface WikiView : UIViewController {
//scrollview
UIScrollView *ScrollView;
//init
int isIpad;
int orientation;
int parseCount;
//parse data constructs
NSString *subplant;
NSString *element;
NSMutableString *text;
NSString *oldElement;
NSMutableDictionary *dataHolder;
NSMutableArray *dataGroup;
NSMutableArray *dataText;
}
#end
.m
- (id)initWithNibName:(NSString *)nibNameOrNil bundle:(NSBundle *)nibBundleOrNil {
//inits
dataGroup = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
dataText = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
dataHolder = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc] initWithCapacity:1];
text = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
//parse the info
[self loadDataFromXML:xmlpath];
//When I call the values for dataText here they are all null
//also when called the objects for dataHolder are null as well
//this outputs the correct array
for (int i = 0; i<[dataGroup count]; i++) {
NSLog(#"%#",dataGroup[i]);
}
//this outputs an array of null objects
for (int i = 0; i<[dataText count]; i++) {
NSLog(#"HI.....%#",dataText[i]);
}
}
//parse function
//method to retrieve data
- (void)loadDataFromXML:(NSString *)xmlpath {
//data is parsed
NSData* data = [NSData dataWithContentsOfFile: xmlpath];
NSXMLParser* parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData: data];
[parser setDelegate:self];
[parser parse];
[parser release];
}
//on found characters
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string {
if ([subplant isEqualToString:plantid]) {
NSString *s2 = [string stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
if (![oldElement isEqualToString:element]) {
if (oldElement != nil) {
if (parseCount >= 1) {
//Here I store the values into the proper places
NSLog(#"%#: %#",oldElement,text);
[dataGroup addObject:oldElement];
[dataText addObject:text];
[dataHolder setObject:text forKey:oldElement];
//The values are correct here
}
parseCount++;
}
//if (new tag) reset string
[text setString:s2];
}
else{
//if not new tag append string (takes care of &apos;)
[text appendString:s2];
}
oldElement = element;
}
}
//on did start element
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict {
//accessing tags of this element
if ([elementName isEqualToString:#"plant"]) {
subplant = [attributeDict valueForKey:#"plant"];
}
element = elementName;
}
-(void)dealloc{
[super dealloc];
[text release]; [dataGroup release]; [dataText release]; [dataHolder release];
}
I create dataGroup and dataText the exact same way but only dataText loses its value.
Any help is appreciated, and if any part of my code is unclear please let me know.
EDIT:
Found the source of the problem.
When I write to the dataText array I rewrite every entry to be the last entry to be entered. In my test case the last entry was the string #"null" creating an array of nulls.
Will be back with solution when found.
EDIT2:
#RuslanSoldatenko Noticed I did not create a new instance of my text string after I set the object in the array. Look at the comments for help.