- substr: documentation ( source)
- trim: documentation ( source)
<?php
$html = "<p>äöü</p><p>ß</p>"; // multibyte UTF-8 input
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML( '<html>'.$html.'</html>' , LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED | LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD);
$html = $dom->saveHTML();
print $html = substr(trim($html),6,-7);