Exemplar provides a set of exhaustive and intuitive interfaces for reading, writing and manipulating XML documents and fragments.
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composer require decodelabs/exemplarAccess and manipulate XML files with a consolidated interface wrapping the DOM functionality available in PHP:
use DecodeLabs\Exemplar\Element as XmlElement;
$element = XmlElement::fromFile('/path/to/my/file.xml');
if($element->hasAttribute('old')) {
$element->removeAttribute('old');
}
$element->setAttribute('new', 'value');
foreach($element->scanChildrenOfType('section') as $sectTag) {
$inner = $sectTag->getFirstChildOfType('title');
$sectTag->removeChild($inner);
// Flatten to plain text
echo $sectTag->getComposedTextContent();
}
file_put_contents('newfile.xml', (string)$element);See Element.php for the full interface.
Programatically generate XML output with a full-featured wrapper around PHP's XML Writer:
use DecodeLabs\Exemplar\Writer as XmlWriter;
$writer = new XmlWriter();
$writer->writeHeader();
$writer->{'ns:section[ns:attr1=value].test'}(function ($writer) {
$writer->{'title#main'}('This is a title');
$writer->{'@body'}('This is an element with content wrapped in CDATA tags.');
$writer->writeCData('This is plain CDATA');
});
echo $writer;This creates:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns:section ns:attr1="value" class="test">
<title id="main">This is a title</title>
<body><![CDATA[This is an element with content wrapped in CDATA tags.]]></body>
<![CDATA[This is plain CDATA]]></ns:section>See Writer.php for the full interface.
Exemplar is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for the full license text.