--- title: Simple SAX parser for PHP | daily.dev description: While working on an Ajax-based partial page update project called PRAjax, the author needed a way to fetch and parse only updated HTML content rather than the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/simple-sax-parser-for-php-fng1jx0b2 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Simple SAX parser for PHP | daily.dev og:description: While working on an Ajax-based partial page update project called PRAjax, the author needed a way to fetch and parse only updated HTML content rather than the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/simple-sax-parser-for-php-fng1jx0b2 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FnG1Jx0b2.png og:image:alt: Simple SAX parser for PHP og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Simple SAX parser for PHP **[Maarten Balliauw](https://daily.dev/sources/maartenballiauw)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary While working on an Ajax-based partial page update project called PRAjax, the author needed a way to fetch and parse only updated HTML content rather than the full page. After trying several PHP HTML parsing libraries that were either too large or limited to XHTML, a SAX-based parser from PHP Classes was found to work well for extracting specific tags and attributes from HTML. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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