- htmlentities: documentation ( source)
<?php
$xml = "<div class='parent'>
<div class='title'>A Title</div>
<div class='child'>some text</div>
<div class='child'>some text</div>
<div class='title'>A Title</div>
<div class='child'>some text</div>
<div class='child'>some text</div>
</div>";
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($xml);
//$dom->loadXML($xml);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$xpqueries = array(
"//div[@class='parent']/div",
"//div[@class='xparent']/div",
// "comment()[last()]",
// "/comment()[last()]",
// "//comment()[last()]"
);
foreach ($xpqueries as $xpquery)
{
$dnode = $xpath->query($xpquery);
if ($dnode && $dnode->length > 0)
{
echo "query '{$xpquery}' results in {$dnode->length} nodes. '" . htmlentities($dnode->item(0)->nodeValue) . "' is the first item, '" . htmlentities($dnode->item($dnode->length - 1)->nodeValue) . "' is the last.<br />";
}
else
{
echo "query '{$xpquery}' results in {$dnode->length} nodes.<br />";
}
}
return;