xml - xpath php slect text and child node in order -

xml - xpath php slect text and child node in order -

i have xml this:

<p>tex text</p> <p><a2>subchild text</a2> text text text</p>

i extract text (from p , kid nodes) in written order , set result in string. utilize next query

$text = $currentnode->xpath("p[not(@class='notes')]/text()) foreach($text $tex) { $finaltext .= $tex." "; }

the problem cannot child-nodes text, illustration text of node 'a2' in example. help? thanks

/text () looks immediate text nodes, //text () looks immediate or lower nodes. it's short descendent-or-self::text ().

so query needs slash:

$text = $currentnode->xpath("p[not(@class='notes')]//text());

(assuming want text , not copies of kid elements).

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