- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$html = <<<HTML
<html>
<body>
<span>hi<br>there<br>how<br>are<br>you</span>
</body>
</html>
HTML;
$dd = new DOMDocument();
$dd->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dd);
$results = $xpath->query('//span');
echo $results->count() . "\n";
foreach ($results as $result) {
var_dump($result->textContent);
var_dump($result->nodeValue);
}