8fold/php-xml-builder

A library for building XML document and element strings.

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1.1.0 2022-02-02 13:36 UTC

Requires

  • php: ^8.0

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MIT e0623a753df056d6874c60362bebf4d4a8ec3341

  • Josh Bruce <josh.woop@8fold.pro>

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Last update: 2022-04-30 14:13:31 UTC

README

XML Builder is designed to build a string, not a document object model (DOM) or abstract syntax tree (AST). If you are looking to achieve either a DOM or AST, there are other libraries and native implementations to do so (PHP:DOM and SimpleXML, for example).

You might use XML Builder to generate a string you feed into either PHP:DOM or Simple XML. Or, use the string as the body of an HTTP response.

Use the Element class to create individual nodes within the document itself.

Use the Document class to generate the doctype declaration and root level element.

Installation

composer require 8fold/php-xml-builder

Usage

Warning: Users of this library are responsible for sanitizing content.

use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Document;
use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Element;
use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Cdata;

Document::create('root',
  Element::create('child',
    Element::create('grandchild')->omitEndTag()->props('name Xavier'),
    Cdata::create('Hello, my name is Xavier!')
  )
)->build();

Output:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<root><child><grandchild name="Xavier"/><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Xavier!]]></child></root>

Output (formatted):

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<root>
  <child>
    <grandchild name="Xavier"/>
    <![CDATA[Hello, my name is Xavier!]]>
  </child>
</root>

Alternatively, there is a shorthand variation that can also be used.

The shorthand method uses the __callStatic PHP magic method to use the method name called as the document and element name, respectively.

use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Document;
use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Element;
use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Cdata;

Document::root(
  Element::child(
    Element::grandchild()->omitEndTag()->props('name Xavier'),
    Cdata::create('Hello, my name is Xavier!')
  )
)->build();

// output: Same as previous example.

Both the Document and Element classes can be converted directly to a string using the __toString() magic method.

use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Document;
use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Element;
use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Cdata;

echo Document::root(
  Element::child(
    Element::grandchild()->omitEndTag()->props('name Xavier'),
    Cdata::create('Hello, my name is Xavier!')
  )
);

// output: Same as previous example.

Comments are also available:

use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Document;
use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Element;
use Eightfold\XMLBuilder\Cdata;

echo Document::create(
  'root',
  Comment::create('comment'),
  Element::create('tag')->omitEndTag()
)->build()

Output (unformatted):

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8" standalone = "yes" ?>
<root>
<!-- comment -->
<tag /></root>

Compatibility

XML Builder version PHP version
1+ 8.0+
0+ 7.4+

Details

This library primarily came about from an experiment in which PHP was viewed without the additional capability of being a template engine. No need to parse a string to generate a complete string and future response.

The secondary pain point was to keep the feel of writing human-friendly XML (tabs and spaces) while reducing the potential for human error; specifically, mismatched beginning and ending tags.

Finally, working with PHP:DOM and SimpleXML felt cumbersome when generating HTML and XML documents.

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