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dataground/simpledom
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A bridge between SimpleXML and the DOM extension, plus a bunch of convenience methods

1.0.10(1y ago)041.5k↓16.1%1MITPHPPHP >=7.4.0

Since Nov 27Pushed 1y ago1 watchersCompare

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SimpleDOM
=========

[](#simpledom)

[![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0e77538e6d00d0ad04d10b5fdda219e01084fd7e964cf1dbfb4965f90b828c62/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f6461746167726f756e642f73696d706c65646f6d2e737667)](https://travis-ci.org/dataground/simpledom)

Description
-----------

[](#description)

SimpleDOM is built upon SimpleXML and acts as a bridge providing DOM methods using SimpleXML's syntax. It also adds a bunch of convenience methods. SimpleDOM is a single file with no dependencies. All you need to use it is include it and create SimpleDOM objects instead of SimpleXMLElement objects, or simply use simpledom\_load\_string() instead of simplexml\_load\_string(). No user manual, but every method is documented in the phpDocumentor-generated output, see doc/ for more information.

History
-------

[](#history)

Forked 27-11-2014 of the unsupported [SimpleDOM project on google code](https://code.google.com/p/simpledom/)

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Usage just like SimpleXML

###  Health Score

41

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FairBetter than 89% of packages

Maintenance42

Moderate activity, may be stable

Popularity28

Limited adoption so far

Community10

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 81.4% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~414 days

Recently: every ~932 days

Total

10

Last Release

462d ago

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.1PHP >=5.4.0

1.0.10PHP >=7.4.0

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/294096?v=4)[PK](/maintainers/dataground)[@dataground](https://github.com/dataground)

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Top Contributors

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Tags

xmldomSimpleXML

###  Code Quality

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