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Asked: 2026-06-02T10:52:54+00:00

From gateway I get one very unsual result it’s HTML inside XML, which confuses

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From gateway I get one very unsual result it’s HTML inside XML, which confuses me. When I echo variable $result this is the output:

<Results>
    <XML_Report>
       <Subject>
         <EFX_Code>199</EFX_Code>
         <Referral>SPECIAL_WOHA</Referral>
       </Subject>
    </XML_Report>
<HTML_Report>
<![CDATA[
        <html>
        <head>


        </head>
        <body>



        <a name="mergereport" />

        <p>MERGE REPORT</p>

        <table border="1" WIDTH="100%" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0>
        <tr><td class=heading colspan=4 align="center" bgcolor="#c0c0c0"><p class=heading>Personal Information Since 08/09/09 FAD 04/17/12</p></td></tr>
        <tr><td><br /></td><td><br /></td><td width="15%" align=center><p><b>Reported</b></p></td><td align=center><p><b>Bur</b></p></td></tr>
        <tr>
        <td width="15%" valign=top align=right><p class=pipad><b>
        Name<br />
        SSN<br />
        Inquiry SSN<br />
        DOB<br />
        Address
        </b></p></td>
        </tr></table>
        </body>

        </html>
]]>
 </HTML_Report>
</Results>

How can I parse that variable to extract out only part of HTML I want eg. anything withing tags inside with PHP… I’ve browsed a lot but can’t find any proper answer if such parsing is possible and more important HOW?

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  1. Editorial Team

    A quick and dirty solution:

    //Assumes the contents of the xml file are in a string called $xml
$arr = explode("<HTML_Report>", $xml);
if(count($arr) > 1)
{
    $arr2 = explode("</HTML_Report>", $arr[1]);
    $html_portion = $arr2[0];
}

    Summary: split the xml string at the HTML_Report start and end tags, each time keeping only the element of the resulting array containing the HTML portion. This will result in $html_portion also containing the CDATA wrapper so if you want to avoid that then split on “”.

    It ain’t elegant but it gets the job done.

    EDIT: Fixed code from $xml[1] to $arr[1] – thanks Marc B.

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