Online PHP editor | output for W5FRm

<?php $html = <<<'EOD' <div> Here the inline code to parse: `code = 'set';` - Danke. And here is the other part: <code>CREATE table `kunstler` ( id INT(10) UNSIGNED AUTO_INCREMENT PRIMARY KEY, vorname VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, nachname VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL ) DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8; INSERT INTO `kunstler` (id, vorname, nachname) VALUES (123456, "Manuela", "Kant"), (112233, "Johann", "Fichte"), (145678, "Eduard", "Spinoza");</code> </div> EOD; $dom = new DOMDocument; $dom->loadHTML($html, LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD | LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED); $xp = new DOMXPath($dom); $textNodes = $xp->query('//text()[not(ancestor::code)][contains(.,"`")]'); function genTextParts($text) { foreach (explode('`', $text) as $part) { yield $part; } } foreach ($textNodes as $textNode) { $parts = genTextParts($textNode->nodeValue); $frag = $dom->createDocumentFragment(); do { $frag->appendChild($dom->createTextNode($parts->current())); $parts->next(); if ( $parts->valid() ) { $codeElt = $dom->createElement('code'); $codeElt->appendChild($dom->createTextNode($parts->current())); $frag->appendChild($codeElt); $parts->next(); } } while ($parts->valid()); $textNode->parentNode->replaceChild($frag, $textNode); } echo $dom->saveHTML();