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Asked: 2026-05-15T12:16:39+00:00

Lets say i have the following web page: <html> <body> <div class="transform"> <span>1</span> </div>

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Lets say i have the following web page:

<html>
<body>
 <div class="transform">
    <span>1</span>
 </div>
 <div class="transform">
    <span>2</span>
 </div>
 <div class="transform">
    <span>3</span>
 </div>
</body>
</html>

I would like to find all div elements that contain the class transform and to fetch the text in each div element ?

I know I can do that easily with regular expressions, but i would like to know how can I do that without regular expressions, but parsing the xml and finding the required nodes i need.

update

i know that in this example i can just iterate through all the divs. but this is an example just to illustrate what i need.

in this example i need to query for divs that contain the attribute class=transform

thanks!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Could use SimpleXML – see the example below:

    $string = "<?xml version='1.0'?> 
<html>
<body>
 <div class='transform'>
    <span>1</span>
 </div>
 <div>
    <span>2</span>
 </div>
 <div class='transform'>
    <span>3</span>
 </div>
</body>
</html>";

$xml = simplexml_load_string($string);
$result = $xml->xpath("//div[@class = 'transform']");

foreach($result as $node) {
  echo "span " . $node->span . "<br />";
}

    Updated it with xpath…

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