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masterminds/html5
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An HTML5 parser and serializer.

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HTML5-PHP
=========

[](#html5-php)

HTML5 is a standards-compliant HTML5 parser and writer written entirely in PHP. It is stable and used in many production websites, and has well over [five million downloads](https://packagist.org/packages/masterminds/html5).

HTML5 provides the following features.

- An HTML5 serializer
- Support for PHP namespaces
- Composer support
- Event-based (SAX-like) parser
- A DOM tree builder
- Interoperability with [QueryPath](https://github.com/technosophos/querypath)
- Runs on **PHP** 5.3.0 or newer

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

[](#installation)

Install HTML5-PHP using [composer](http://getcomposer.org/).

By adding the `masterminds/html5` dependency to your `composer.json` file:

```
{
  "require" : {
    "masterminds/html5": "^2.0"
  },
}
```

By invoking require command via composer executable:

```
composer require masterminds/html5
```

Basic Usage
-----------

[](#basic-usage)

HTML5-PHP has a high-level API and a low-level API.

Here is how you use the high-level `HTML5` library API:

```