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diversen/simple-query-selector
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A very simple way to query simpleXML documents using CSS selectors

v1.0.4(8y ago)160MITPHP

Since Jul 9Pushed 8y ago1 watchersCompare

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simple-query-selector
=====================

[](#simple-query-selector)

Very simple query-selector for e.g. XML and HTML documents. It uses symfony `CssSelector` in order to make jQuery-like queries on a DOM-tree. `CssSelector` rewrites xpath expressions to CSS-selectors, which for most web-developers are much easier to understand and work with. Css-selectors is also what e.g. jQuery uses, which then makes it familiar to almost any web-developer.

The `query-selector` class just wraps the functionality of the `CssSelector`.

Install
-------

[](#install)

```
composer require diversen/simple-query-selector

```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

See [test.php](test.php) and [test.xml](test.xml)

Notice
------

[](#notice)

CssSelector or XPath does not like case-diffrence in the XML it searches through. You will need some kind of normalisation if your XML has different cases, e.g. a tag like `` will most likely cause problems. Normalize your XML-string with a function like this:

```
$xml = preg_replace_callback("/(]+)/", function ($matches) {
	return strtolower($matches[1]);
}, $xml);

```

License
-------

[](#license)

MIT © Dennis Iversen

###  Health Score

29

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LowBetter than 60% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity67

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 ~4 days

Total

5

Last Release

3212d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![diversen](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/142675?v=4)](https://github.com/diversen "diversen (5 commits)")

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domjquerycss-selector

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