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wsdltophp/domhandler
====================

Decorative design pattern to ease DOM handling

2.0.6(4y ago)31.9M↓10.7%[1 PRs](https://github.com/WsdlToPhp/DomHandler/pulls)1MITPHPPHP >=7.4

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[ Source](https://github.com/WsdlToPhp/DomHandler)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/wsdltophp/domhandler)[ Docs](https://github.com/WsdlToPhp/DomHandler)[ RSS](/packages/wsdltophp-domhandler/feed)WikiDiscussions develop Synced 1mo ago

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DOM Handler
===========

[](#dom-handler)

> DOM Handler provides handful methods to manipulate/browse a DOM Document.

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DomHandler uses the [decorator design pattern](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorator_pattern) in order to ease DOM handling.

The source code has been originally created into the [PackageGenerator](https://github.com/WsdlToPhp/PackageGenerator) project but it felt that it had the possibility to live by itself and to evolve independtly from the PackageGenerator project if necessary.

Testing using [Docker](https://www.docker.com/)
-----------------------------------------------

[](#testing-using-docker)

Thanks to the [Docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/splitbrain/phpfarm) of [phpfarm](https://github.com/fpoirotte/phpfarm), tests can be run locally under *any* PHP version using the cli:

- php-7.4

First of all, you need to create your container which you can do using [docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) by running the below command line from the root directory of the project:

```
$ docker-compose up -d --build
```

You then have a container named `dom_handler` in which you can run `composer` commands and `php cli` commands such as:

```
# install deps in container (using update ensure it does use the composer.lock file if there is any)
$ docker exec -it dom_handler php-7.4 /usr/bin/composer update
# run tests in container
$ docker exec -it dom_handler php-7.4 -dmemory_limit=-1 vendor/bin/phpunit
```

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

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

Developers who helped on this project are listed in the [composer.json](composer.json#L8) file as `Contributor` and are:

- [phordijk](https://github.com/phordijk)

FAQ
---

[](#faq)

Feel free to [create an issue](https://github.com/WsdlToPhp/DomHandler/issues/new).

License
-------

[](#license)

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

###  Health Score

40

—

FairBetter than 88% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity42

Moderate usage in the ecosystem

Community11

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 98.6% 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 ~226 days

Recently: every ~105 days

Total

9

Last Release

1516d ago

Major Versions

1.0.1 → 2.0.02021-01-26

PHP version history (2 changes)1.0.0PHP >=5.3.3

2.0.0PHP >=7.4

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/f121510bbeb52d39582fbd1a2f31bc9fc4139f8ed4e89ef9c1406868c378669d?d=identicon)[wsdltophp](/maintainers/wsdltophp)

---

Top Contributors

[![mikaelcom](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/584391?v=4)](https://github.com/mikaelcom "mikaelcom (73 commits)")[![phordijk](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4834249?v=4)](https://github.com/phordijk "phordijk (1 commits)")

---

Tags

decoratordecorator-patterndomdom-handlerdomhandlerphp-libraryxmlphpxmldomXpath

###  Code Quality

TestsPHPUnit

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

Type Coverage Yes

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