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halilim/xml-iterator
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XML Reader to simplexml/array iterator with low memory usage and an acceptable level of ease of use.

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xml-iterator
============

[](#xml-iterator)

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XML Reader to array/object iterator with low memory usage (basically a Space–time tradeoff) and an acceptable level of ease of use. Mostly useful for importing sequential data from external API's.

Installation (Composer)
-----------------------

[](#installation-composer)

```
$ composer require "halilim/xml-iterator"
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

```
use XmlIterator\XmlIterator;
$it = new XmlIterator("http://api.example.com/products.xml", "product");

foreach ($it as $k => $v) {
    // Do something with each row ($v), save it to db, echo it, etc. E.g.:
    // echo $k . " => " . var_export($v, true) . "\n\n";
}
```

Note: When working with remote files it's advised to copy the file to a temporary local location first. Otherwise if the import takes a long time, "extra content at the end of the document" kind of errors may occur (or at least this was what happened to me).

Example input:

```

        Lorem
        ACME

            http://www.example.com/image1.jpg
            http://www.example.com/image2.jpg

        Ipsum
        Etc LLC

            http://www.example.com/image3.jpg
            http://www.example.com/image4.jpg

```

Example output:

```
0 => array (
  'title' => 'Lorem',
  'brand' => 'ACME',
  'images' =>
  array (
    'image' =>
    array (
      0 => 'http://www.example.com/image1.jpg',
      1 => 'http://www.example.com/image2.jpg',
    ),
  ),
)

1 => array (
  'title' => 'Ipsum',
  'brand' => 'Etc LLC',
  'images' =>
  array (
    'image' =>
    array (
      0 => 'http://www.example.com/image3.jpg',
      1 => 'http://www.example.com/image4.jpg',
    ),
  ),
)
```

Testing
-------

[](#testing)

```
$ composer test
```

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [CODE\_OF\_CONDUCT](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for details.

List of Contributors
--------------------

[](#list-of-contributors)

We thank all [our contributors](https://github.com/halilim/xml-iterator/graphs/contributors) for their contributions.

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License (MIT). Please see [License File](LICENSE) for more information.

###  Health Score

58

—

FairBetter than 98% of packages

Maintenance74

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity45

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity79

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 93.3% 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 ~2044 days

Total

3

Last Release

145d ago

Major Versions

1.0.1 → v2.0.02026-02-08

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3

v2.0.0PHP >=8.2

### Community

Maintainers

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![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3856033?v=4)[Remi FUSSIEN](/maintainers/rfussien)[@rfussien](https://github.com/rfussien)

---

Top Contributors

[![halilim](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/226712?v=4)](https://github.com/halilim "halilim (28 commits)")[![eberhm](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1044082?v=4)](https://github.com/eberhm "eberhm (2 commits)")

---

Tags

xmliteratorXMLReaderSimpleXML

###  Code Quality

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