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<?php $html = 'This should be extracted <p>I do not want this</p> This should also be extracted <a>This may appear after other tags and I do not want this</a>'; $doc = new DOMDocument(); $doc->loadHTML("<div>$html</div>", LIBXML_HTML_NODEFDTD | LIBXML_HTML_NOIMPLIED); $xpath = new DOMXPath($doc); $texts = array(); foreach ($xpath->query('/div/text()') as $text) { $texts[] = $text->nodeValue; } print_r($texts);
Output for 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.34, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.34, 8.2.0 - 8.2.30, 8.3.0 - 8.3.30, 8.4.1 - 8.4.18, 8.5.0 - 8.5.3
Array ( [0] => This should be extracted [1] => This should also be extracted )

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