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<?php $document = <<<XML <div> <para>text not to match</para> <para>Other line #my_pattern_to_match#, hello world</para> <block> <para>Second test #other_pattern_to_match# in a sub child node</para> </block> </div> XML; $dom = new DOMDocument; $dom->loadXML($document); $paras = $dom->getElementsByTagName('para'); foreach($paras as $para){ if(preg_match('/#(.*?)#/', $para->nodeValue, $match)){ echo $match[1] . PHP_EOL; } }