Question

I’m using XPath/PHP to parse HTML of a given URL. Let’s say I have the desired node in the DOMElement object $element.

How can I perform a query on the parent node of $element?

Answer 1

DOMXPath‘s constructor requires you pass it the DOMDocument of the node:

$xpath = new DOMXPath($element->parentNode->ownerDocument);
$xpath->execute($expression, $element->parentNode);