CssSelector deprecated

class CssSelector

deprecated

as of 2.8, will be removed in 3.0. Use the \Symfony\Component\CssSelector\CssSelectorConverter class instead.

CssSelector is the main entry point of the component and can convert CSS selectors to XPath expressions.

$xpath = CssSelector::toXpath('h1.foo');

This component is a port of the Python cssselect library, which is copyright Ian Bicking, see https://github.com/SimonSapin/cssselect.

Copyright (c) 2007-2012 Ian Bicking and contributors. See AUTHORS for more details.

All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

  1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

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  3. Neither the name of Ian Bicking nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

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Methods

static string toXPath(mixed $cssExpr, string $prefix = 'descendant-or-self::')

Translates a CSS expression to its XPath equivalent.
static enableHtmlExtension()

Enables the HTML extension.
static disableHtmlExtension()

Disables the HTML extension.

Details

static string toXPath(mixed $cssExpr, string $prefix = 'descendant-or-self::')

Translates a CSS expression to its XPath equivalent.

Optionally, a prefix can be added to the resulting XPath expression with the $prefix parameter.

Parameters

mixed $cssExpr The CSS expression
string $prefix An optional prefix for the XPath expression

Return Value

string

static enableHtmlExtension()

Enables the HTML extension.

static disableHtmlExtension()

Disables the HTML extension.

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