PHP XML/HTML DOM get CSS class attribute with whitespace

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I've got the following problem: I'm using the PHP XML DOM parser and when I'm parsing real-world HTML, the 'class' attributes of many elements have spaces in them, so there are actually multiple CSS classes for these elements. However, when I query the DOMNode with getAttribute(), I'm getting only the first class.

I have also tried PHP simplehtmldom for the very same purpose, but to the same result.

This question has been asked here before, however not really answered: PHP dom to get tag class with multiple css class name

This workaround does not work in my case. Any help would be appreciated :)

The other question contains a very good example of what I need to accomplish in case anyone did not understand me.

there seems to be a working code example, have you tried that? — Ben
– Ben, Commented Sep 19, 2011 at 1:11
If you're referring to the code in the question itself, it only demonstrates the problem I'm trying to solve :( Sadly it does not work out the issue. — Ger4ish
– Ger4ish, Commented Sep 19, 2011 at 1:16
no the code link in the comment that say's its working codepad.org/VZVUXgrT — Ben
– Ben, Commented Sep 19, 2011 at 1:22

Jose · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-19 02:06:26Z

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You can try this for the example in the stackoveflow question you linked to. Works for me:

$body = // the html
$html = new DomDocument();
$html->loadHTML($body);
$as = $html->getElementsByTagName('a');

foreach($as as $a) { 
    if ($a->getAttribute('class')=='secondLink SecondClass') {
          // do something
    }
 }

answered Sep 19, 2011 at 2:06

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Ger4ish Over a year ago

OK, I can't reproduce the correct behavior, but I'll check the configuration on my end. If I can't find anything, I'm accepting your answer

Jose Over a year ago

Did you get it to work? What seems to be not working? Can you post the full code that you used?

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