choppervshtml5-php

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Chopper is a tool to extract elements from HTML by preserving ancestors and CSS rules.

Compared to other HTML parsers Chopper is designed to retain original HTML tree but eliminate elements that do not match parsing rules. Meaning, we can parse HTML elements and keep thei structure for machine learning or other tasks where data structure is needed as well as the data value.

HTML5 is a standards-compliant HTML5 parser and writer written entirely in PHP. It is stable and used in many production websites, and has well over five million downloads.

HTML5 provides the following features:

An HTML5 serializer
Support for PHP namespaces
Composer support
Event-based (SAX-like) parser
A DOM tree builder
Interoperability with QueryPath
Runs on PHP 5.3.0 or newer

Note that html5-php is a low-level HTML parser and does not feature any query features like CSS selectors.

Example Use

```python HTML = """ Test

HELLO WORLD Do not want

<div id="footer"></div>

"""

CSS = """ div { border: 1px solid black; } div#main { color: blue; } div.iwantthis { background-color: red; } a { color: green; } div#footer { border-top: 2px solid red; } """

extractor = Extractor.keep('//div[@class="iwantthis"]').discard('//a') html, css = extractor.extract(HTML, CSS)

will result in:

html """

HELLO WORLD

"""

css """ div{border:1px solid black;} div#main{color:blue;} div.iwantthis{background-color:red;} """ ```

```php

TEST

Hello World

This is a test of the HTML5 parser.

HERE; // Parse the document. $dom is a DOMDocument. $html5 = new HTML5(); $dom = $html5->loadHTML($html); // Render it as HTML5: print $html5->saveHTML($dom); // Or save it to a file: $html5->save($dom, 'out.html'); ```

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