Question

I hope you can help me with that. The XML file looks like this:

<channel><item>
<description>
<div>  <a href="http://image.com">
<span>   
<img src="http://image.com" /> 
</span>
</a>
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing etc... 
</div>
</description>
</item></channel>

I can get the contents of the description tag, but when i do that, i get the whole structure which has lots of css in there and i don’t want that.
What i really need is to parse the href link and the Lorem Ipsum text only. I’m trying with simple XML, but can’t find out, looks too complicated. Any ideas?

edit:
code i use to parse xml

$file = new SimpleXMLElement($mydata);
{

    foreach($file->channel->item as $post)
{

    echo $post->description; } }

Answer 1

This is the final code that answears the question.

$xml = simplexml_load_file('myfile.xml');

$descriptions = $xml->xpath('//item/description');

foreach ( $descriptions as $description_node ) {

    $description_dom = new DOMDocument();
    $description_dom->loadHTML( (string)$description_node );

    $description_sxml = simplexml_import_dom( $description_dom );

    $imgs = $description_sxml->xpath('//img');
    $text = $description_sxml->xpath('//div');

    foreach($imgs as $image){

    echo (string)$image['src'];     
       }
    foreach($text as $t){

        echo (string)$t;
       }
    }

It is IMSoP’s code and i added the $text = $description_sxml->xpath('//div'); to read the text that is inside the <div>.

In my case some of the posts in the xml have multiple <div> and <span> tags, so to parse all of them i might have to add another ->xpath for the <span> or maybe an if... else statement so that if i don’t have any content inside <div>, echo the <span> contents instead.
Thanks for your replies.