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Xml Navigator

The PHP library Xml Navigator base on XMLReader.

You can assign XML as string or as URI ( or file system path to file).

Navigator can provide XML-document as array or as object.

How to use

OUTPUT:

How To Install

composer require sbwerewolf/xml-navigator

Use cases

XML file processing with no worries of file size

Access time to first element do not depend on file size.

Let explain this with example.

First generate XML files by script:

Now, run benchmark by script:

Parse XML fast with callback for detect suitable elements

Output to console will be:

XML-document as array

XmlConverter implements array approach.

XmlConverter can use to convert XML-document to array, example:

OUTPUT:

XML-document as object

XmlElement implements object-oriented approach.

Navigator API

• name(): string // Returns the name of XML element
• hasValue(): bool // Returns true if XML element has value
• value(): string // Returns the value of XML element
• hasAttribute(string $name = ''): bool // Returns true if XML element has attribute with $name. If $name omitted, than returns true if XML element has any attribute
• attributes(): XmlAttribute[] // Returns all attributes of XML element
• get(string $name = null): string // Get value of attribute with the $name, if $name is omitted, than returns value of random attribute
• hasElement(?string $name = null): bool // Returns true if XML element has nested element with $name. If $name omitted, than returns true if XML element has any nested element
• elements(): IXmlElement[] // Returns all nested elements
• pull(string $name = ''): Generator // Pull IXmlElement for nested element, if $name is defined, than pull elements with the $name

Interact with XML as object

Advanced using

Unit tests have more examples of using, please investigate them.

Run tests

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