symfony/css-selector

Features

• CSS and XPath Query Engines - Provides a utility that transforms CSS selectors into XPath expressions for locating elements within documents.
• XML Parsing - Provides a way to query XML documents by translating CSS selectors into compatible XPath formats.
• Web Document Parsing - Facilitates navigating complex web page structures to locate target elements using CSS selection patterns.
• CSS Selector Engines - Provides a PHP-based CSS selector engine for querying and navigating DOM structures.
• Web Scraping Selectors - Enables high-precision element targeting for data extraction by converting CSS selectors to XPath.
• Recursive Descent Parsers - Uses a recursive descent parsing engine to translate token streams into internal syntax trees.
• Pattern Matching - Employs pattern-matching logic to handle complex CSS selector combinations and relationships.
• Query Expression Generators - Builds final XPath strings by concatenating mapped segments according to the document tree structure.
• Abstract Syntax Tree Parsing - Implements a transformation pipeline that converts parsed selector hierarchies into a structured tree representation.
• String Tokenization - Utilizes a lexer to break raw CSS selector strings into a stream of tokens based on character patterns.

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