XML Parsing Done Wrong?

- (void)connectionDidFinishLoading:(NSURLConnection *)connection
{
    NSString *responseString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:self.responseData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    
    NSString * newStr = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[self.responseData bytes]];
    
    [self parseXML]; 
}



- (void) parseXML 
{
    NSLog (@\"parseXML\");
   
    NSXMLParser *xmlParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:self.responseData];
    
    [xmlParser setDelegate:self];
    
    
    myMasterList = [[MasterList alloc] init];
    
    if (![xmlParser parse])
    {
        NSLog (@\"An error occurred in the parsing\");    
    }
}



- (void)parserDidStartDocument:(NSXMLParser *)parser 
{
    NSLog (@\"parserDidStartDocument\");
    inItemElement = NO;
}


- (void)parserDidEndDocument:(NSXMLParser *)parser 
{
    NSLog (@\"parserDidEndDocument\");
}


// Called when the parser encounters a start element
- (void) parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qualifiedName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict 
{
    if ([elementName isEqualToString:@\"str_smartsearch\"]) 
    {
        inItemElement = YES;
    }
    capturedCharacters = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithCapacity:50];
    capturedCharacters = [[NSMutableString alloc] initWithCapacity:250];
}


- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName 
  namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName 
{
    
    
    if ([elementName isEqualToString:@\"description\"])
    {
        myMasterList.masterDecript = capturedCharacters;
        NSLog(@\" decription:%@\", capturedCharacters);
        }
    if ([elementName isEqualToString:@\"onhand\"]) 
    {
        myMasterList.masterOnHand = capturedCharacters;
        
    }
    if ([elementName isEqualToString:@\"price\"])
    {
        myMasterList.masterPrice = capturedCharacters;
    }
    if ([elementName isEqualToString:@\"itemno\"])
    {
        myMasterList.masterItem = capturedCharacters;
        [masterArray addObject:myMasterList];
        myMasterList = nil;
   
        
    }
    
    capturedCharacters = nil;   
    
    if ([elementName isEqualToString:@\"str_smartsearch\"]) 
    {
     
       inItemElement = NO;
    }
    

}


- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSMutableString *)string 
{
    if (capturedCharacters != nil) 
    {
        [capturedCharacters appendString:string];
   
    }
    else 
    {
        [capturedCharacters isEqual:string];
    }
    
}