Question

I have in PHP a string which contain stuff like this:

<div>some html</div>
<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />
<div>more html</div>

I need to remove all occurences of xml tags and everything they contain. I think one might use regex to do that but I don’t how to use it.

Answer 1

Use strip_tags if you want remove all markup or this

$string =' <tag> asdasd <tag>asdasd</tag> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /> text';

echo preg_replace('/<\?xml[^>]+\/>/im', '', $string);