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<?php $html = '<p>random</p> <a href="">Test 1</a> (target1) <br> <a href="">Test 2</a> (target2) <br> <a href="">Test 3</a> (skip) // etc '; $array = array( '(target1)', '(target2)' ); $contains = implode(" or ", array_map(function($x) { return "contains(., '$x')"; }, $array)); $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->loadHTML('<?xml encoding="utf-8" ?>' . $html); $xpath = new DOMXPath($doc); $elements = $xpath->query("//a/following-sibling::text()[$contains]"); $results = []; foreach ($elements as $element) { $results[] = [$element->previousSibling->nodeValue, trim($element->nodeValue)]; } print_r($results);