sax-jsvsdomcrawler
sax-js is a streaming XML parser for Node.js that is built on top of the sax C library. It is designed to be fast, low-memory, and easy to use. It is commonly used for parsing large XML files, as it allows you to process the XML data incrementally, rather than loading the entire file into memory at once.
sax-js is a low-level html tree parser and does not provide html query capabilities (like CSS selectors) though it can be useful in HTML tree parsing and serialization.
DOMCrawler library is part of the Symfony Components project and provides an easy way to traverse and manipulate HTML and XML documents using the Document Object Model (DOM) in PHP.
DOMcrawler supports both CSS selectors and XPath for HTML document parsing and is one the most popular HTML parsing tools used in web scraping with PHP.
Example Use
const fs = require("fs");
const sax = require("sax");
const xmlStream = fs.createReadStream("example.xml");
const saxParser = sax.createStream(true, {});
saxParser.on("opentag", function(node) {
console.log(`<${node.name}>`);
});
saxParser.on("closetag", function(nodeName) {
console.log(`</${nodeName}>`);
});
saxParser.on("text", function(text) {
console.log(text);
});
xmlStream.pipe(saxParser);
use Symfony\Component\DomCrawler\Crawler;
$html = '<html><body><h1 class="title">Hello World</h1></body></html>';
$crawler = new Crawler($html);
// Find all elements using CSS selectors
$elements = $crawler->filter('.title')i;
// or XPath
$elements = $crawler->filterXPath('//h1');
// Print the text content of the elements
foreach ($elements as $element) {
echo $element->textContent;
}