Question

I have a table with trs that look like this.

<tr> 
  <td><a href="http://www.mysite.com">Link</a></td>
  <td>value 2</td>
  <td>value 3</td>
  <td>value 4</td>
  <td>value 5</td>
</tr>

I’m using xPath to select all <tr> and looping through them.

foreach($xpathResult as $item){
  //print the href of the first td
  //print the nodeValue of the second td
  //print the nodeValue of the 3rd td
  //print the nodeValue of the 4th td
  //print the nodeValue of the 5th td
}

How do I print the href of the first td and the nodeValue of each td thereafter? There’s firstChild and lastChild, but how do I get to the middle s? I could use firstChild->nextSibling and firstChild->nextSibling->nextSibling but isn’t there an easier way?

Answer 1

Just use a loop on childNodes, like so:

foreach( $trs as $tr) {
    echo $tr->firstChild->firstChild->attributes->getNamedItem( 'href')->value;
    foreach( $tr->childNodes as $k => $td) {
        if( $k == 0) continue; // Skip the first one
        echo $td->nodeValue . "\n";
    }
}