- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$html = <<<'HTML'
<html><Body><Title>My Title</Title></Body></html>
HTML;
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHtml($html);
var_dump(
// One element "title"
$dom->getElementsByTagName('title')->length
);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
var_dump(
// "title" as string
$xpath->evaluate('string(//title)')
);