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sergeynezbritskiy/xml-io
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Library for parsing and generating XML

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xml-io
======

[](#xml-io)

Library for Parsing xml into php array using easy mapping. It allows you to parse simple data like strings and numbers, arrays or a list of items and complex data like objects. Also any combination of these data types is allowed.

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

[](#installation)

The easiest way to install module is using Composer

```
composer require sergeynezbritskiy/xml-io:^5.0.0

```

Simple usage
------------

[](#simple-usage)

The most useful test cases can be seen in tests

Here is the most generic example. Lets pretend we have such xml as below

```

    Sergey
    1988-20-12

        2000-12-12

        buono
        brutto
        cattivo

            Kharkiv
            Ukraine

            London
            Great Britain

```

Here is an example of how to convert such xml into array:

```
$xmlString = ' xml string from above ';
$xmlReader = new \SergeyNezbritskiy\XmlIo\XmlReader();
$user = $xmlReader->stringToArray($xmlString, [
    //array element with key `id` will be created from attribute `id`
    'id' => '@id',
    //array element with key `name` will be created from tag `name`
    'name' => 'name',
    'born' => 'born',
    'born_format' => 'born.@format',
    'passport' => [
        'id' => '@id',
        'date' => 'date',
    ],
    //create simple list of items
    'keywords as keywords.keyword' => '{list}',
    //create element `addresses` which will be an array of associative arrays
    'addresses as addresses.address[]' => [
        'city' => 'city',
        'country' => 'country',
    ]
]);

the result will be smth like that:
$user = [
    'id' => '1',
    'name' => 'Sergey',
    'born' => '1988-20-12',
    'born_format' => 'ISO',
    'passport' => [
        'id' => 'MN123456',
        'date' => '2000-12-12',
    ],
    'keywords' => [
        'buono',
        'brutto',
        'cattivo'
    ],
    'addresses' => [
        [
            'city' => 'Kharkiv',
            'country' => 'Ukraine'
        ],[
            'city' => 'London',
            'country' => 'Great Britain'
        ],
    ]
];

and back, convert array to xml
$xmlWriter = new \SergeyNezbritskiy\XmlIo\XmlWriter();
$xml = $xmlWriter->toXmlString($user,
'user' => [
    'attributes' => ['id'],
    'children' => [
        'name',
        'born',
        'passport' => [
            'attributes' => ['id'],
            'children' => 'date',
        ],
        'keywords' => [
            'children' => [
                'keyword[]' => [
                    'dataProvider' => 'keywords',
                    'text' => '{self}',
                ],
            ],
        ],
        'addresses' => [
            'children' => [
                'address[]' => [
                    'dataProvider' => 'addresses',
                    'children' => ['city', 'country'],
                ],
            ],
        ],
    ],
]);
```

Inspiration
-----------

[](#inspiration)

Author was inspired for creating of this library by

###  Health Score

37

—

LowBetter than 83% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity26

Limited adoption so far

Community12

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity74

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

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**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 ~132 days

Recently: every ~263 days

Total

9

Last Release

1940d ago

Major Versions

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v2.0.1 → v3.0.02018-03-08

v3.0.1 → v4.0.02018-03-10

v4.0.0 → v5.0.02018-03-12

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