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decodelabs/exemplar
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Powerful XML tools

v0.5.11(6mo ago)41.7kMITPHPPHP ^8.4CI passing

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Exemplar
========

[](#exemplar)

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### Powerful XML tools for PHP.

[](#powerful-xml-tools-for-php)

Exemplar provides a set of exhaustive and intuitive interfaces for reading, writing and manipulating XML documents and fragments.

---

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

This package requires PHP 8.4 or higher.

Install via Composer:

```
composer require decodelabs/exemplar
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

### Reading & manipulating

[](#reading--manipulating)

Access and manipulate XML files with a consolidated interface wrapping the DOM functionality available in PHP:

```
use DecodeLabs\Exemplar\Element as XmlElement;

$element = XmlElement::fromFile('/path/to/my/file.xml');

if($element->hasAttribute('old')) {
    $element->removeAttribute('old');
}

$element->setAttribute('new', 'value');

foreach($element->scanChildrenOfType('section') as $sectTag) {
    $inner = $sectTag->getFirstChildOfType('title');
    $sectTag->removeChild($inner);

    // Flatten to plain text
    echo $sectTag->getComposedTextContent();
}

file_put_contents('newfile.xml', (string)$element);
```

See [Element.php](./src/Element.php) for the full interface.

### Writing

[](#writing)

Programatically generate XML output with a full-featured wrapper around PHP's XML Writer:

```
use DecodeLabs\Exemplar\Writer as XmlWriter;

$writer = new XmlWriter();
$writer->writeHeader();

$writer->{'ns:section[ns:attr1=value].test'}(function ($writer) {
    $writer->{'title#main'}('This is a title');

    $writer->{'@body'}('This is an element with content wrapped in CDATA tags.');
    $writer->writeCData('This is plain CDATA');
});

echo $writer;
```

This creates:

```

    This is a title
    This is an element with content wrapped in CDATA tags.]]>
This is plain CDATA]]>
```

See [Writer.php](./src/Writer.php) for the full interface.

Licensing
---------

[](#licensing)

Exemplar is licensed under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](./LICENSE) for the full license text.

###  Health Score

50

—

FairBetter than 96% of packages

Maintenance84

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% 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 ~64 days

Recently: every ~39 days

Total

27

Last Release

186d ago

PHP version history (4 changes)v0.1.0PHP ^7.2|^8.0

v0.3.0PHP ^8.0

v0.4.0PHP ^8.1

v0.5.0PHP ^8.4

### Community

Maintainers

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---

Top Contributors

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---

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