- var_dump: documentation ( source)
<?php
$html = <<<'HTML'
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body id="body">
<div>text1</div>
<div>text2</div>
</body>
</html>
HTML;
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHtml($html);
$xpath = new DOMXpath($dom);
$nodes = $xpath->evaluate('//text()[contains(., "text1")]');
foreach ($nodes as $node) {
$ancestors = $xpath->evaluate('ancestor::*', $node);
$path = '';
foreach ($ancestors as $ancestorNode) {
$tagName = $ancestorNode->tagName;
$path .= '/'.$tagName;
}
var_dump($path);
}