Online PHP editor | refs for lvGXR

<?php $html = <<<'HTML' <div id='makeme' class='testme'> <span id='whatspanID'>somthing</span> <p class='ptagclass'></p> </div> HTML; $dom = new DOMDocument(); $dom->loadHtml($html); $xpath = new DOMXpath($dom); $div = $xpath->evaluate('//div[@id="makeme"]')->item(0); $nodes = iterator_to_array( $xpath->evaluate('.//text()|.//@*', $div) ); foreach ($nodes as $node) { $node->parentNode->removeChild($node); } echo $dom->saveHtml($div);