How could I extract the string "text" from this markup using the PHP DOM?
<div><span>notthis</span>text</div>
$div->nodeValue includes "notthis"
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You can access DOMText node directly using XPath:
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom_document);
$node = $xpath->query('//div/text()')->item(0);
echo $node->textContent; // text
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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.
