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essence/dom
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Essence's DOM parser.

1.0.0(10y ago)7502.2k↑23.5%1[1 issues](https://github.com/essence/dom/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/essence/dom/pulls)3MITPHP

Since Jul 23Pushed 10y ago2 watchersCompare

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Essence DOM
===========

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[![Build status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/0e808b394718b331650afa24e75a4cc461a73025ba7671b464322d2c65320f5c/687474703a2f2f696d672e736869656c64732e696f2f7472617669732f657373656e63652f646f6d2e7376673f7374796c653d666c61742d737175617265)](http://travis-ci.org/essence/dom)

The DOM API used by [Essence](https://github.com/essence/essence).

###  Health Score

38

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LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance17

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity42

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community16

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity63

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 97.7% 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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

3998d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2738851?v=4)[Fatih GÜRSOY](/maintainers/fg)[@fg](https://github.com/fg)

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Top Contributors

[![felixgirault](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1544510?v=4)](https://github.com/felixgirault "felixgirault (43 commits)")[![scrutinizer-auto-fixer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/6253494?v=4)](https://github.com/scrutinizer-auto-fixer "scrutinizer-auto-fixer (1 commits)")

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Tags

parserdom

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