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nb/oxymel
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A sweet XML builder

v0.1.0(13y ago)258.2M↑21.5%32MITPHPPHP >=5.2.4

Since Feb 24Pushed 11y ago2 watchersCompare

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oxymel – a sweet XML builder [![Build Status](https://camo.githubusercontent.com/df4854090f8050a86c6541845503e849e2847e16d2c970a907206011d3956748/68747470733a2f2f7472617669732d63692e6f72672f6e622f6f78796d656c2e706e67)](https://travis-ci.org/nb/oxymel)
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[](#oxymel--a-sweet-xml-builder-)

```
$oxymel = new Oxymel;
echo $oxymel
  ->xml
  ->html->contains
    ->head->contains
      ->meta(array('charset' => 'utf-8'))
      ->title("How to seduce dragons")
    ->end
    ->body(array('class' => 'story'))->contains
      ->h1('How to seduce dragons', array('id' => 'begin'))
      ->h2('The fire manual')
      ->p('Once upon a time in a distant land there was an dragon.')
      ->p('In another very distant land')->contains
        ->text(' there was a very ')->strong('strong')->text(' warrrior')
      ->end
      ->p->contains->cdata('who fought bold dragons')->end
      ->raw('with not fake bold dragons, too')
      ->tag('dragon:identity', array('name' => 'Jake'))
      ->comment('no dragons were harmed during the generation of this XML document')
    ->end
  ->end
  ->to_string();
```

Outputs:

```

    How to seduce dragons

    How to seduce dragons
    The fire manual
    Once upon a time in a distant land there was an dragon.
    In another very distant land there was a very strong warrrior
    who fought bold dragons]]>
    with not fake bold dragons, too

```

###  Health Score

38

—

LowBetter than 85% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity55

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community17

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 97.9% 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

4831d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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Top Contributors

[![nb](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/27954?v=4)](https://github.com/nb "nb (47 commits)")[![Nyholm](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1275206?v=4)](https://github.com/Nyholm "Nyholm (1 commits)")

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Tags

xml

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