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@ 2018-12-22T02:17:05Z

<?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 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.4, 8.3.6: Array ( [0] => This should be extracted [1] => This should also be extracted )
Output for 8.3.5: Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'sodium.so' (tried: /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so (libsodium.so.23: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory), /usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so (/usr/lib/php/8.3.5/modules/sodium.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0 Array ( [0] => This should be extracted [1] => This should also be extracted )

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