Maybe I'm biased (no Objective-C experience), but in the platforms I work with this is a 15-minute task, so I wouldn't hire either. There is nothing extraordinary about being familiar with XML or regular expressions.
Take your point, and it's probable that the employer had other concerns and picked a covering excuse.
(Some Objective-C flavour: NSXMLParser is a more appropriate solution than the one described)
One reason I picked 90 minutes for my example is that I was imagining a hypothetical task, and I don't think you would/should be left sat at a task for 2 hours where 15 mins was expected. I hope that wouldn't happen.
(Some Objective-C flavour: NSXMLParser is a more appropriate solution than the one described)
One reason I picked 90 minutes for my example is that I was imagining a hypothetical task, and I don't think you would/should be left sat at a task for 2 hours where 15 mins was expected. I hope that wouldn't happen.