How could I extract the string "text" from this markup using the PHP DOM?
<div><span>notthis</span>text</div>
$div->nodeValue
includes "notthis"
You can access DOMText
node directly using XPath:
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom_document); $node = $xpath->query('//div/text()')->item(0); echo $node->textContent; // text
So long as you can affect the DOM, you could remove that span
.
$span = $div->getElementsByTagName('span')->item(0); $div->removeChild($span); $nodeValue = $div->nodeValue;
Alternatively, just access the text node of $div
.
foreach($div->childNodes as $node) { if ($node->nodeType != XML_TEXT_NODE) { continue; } $nodeValue = $node; }
If you end up with more text nodes and only want the first, you can break
after the first assignment of $nodeValue
.
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