- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$html = '<html><body><div id="fred" class="item active" style="display: block; left: 685.5753504672897px; top: 0px; height: 475.3125px; width: 318.84929906542055px; font-size: 100%; z-index: 32768; visibility: visible;"><div class="content"><canvas></canvas></div></div></body></html>';
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadXML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$resulted = $xpath->query('*/div[@class="active"]/a');
echo 'Found items: ' , count($resulted) , "\n";
foreach ($resulted as $result) {
var_dump($result->nodeName);
$active = $result->query('div[@class="content"]');
var_dump($active);
}