php xpath: query within a query result

Question

I\'m trying to parse an html file.

The idea is to fetch the span\'s with title and desc classes and to fetch their information in each div that

Answer 1

Make the queries relative... start them with a dot (e.g. ".//…").

foreach ($arts as $art) {
    // Note: single slash (direct child)
    $titles = $xpath->query("./span[@class='title']", $art);
    if ($titles->length > 0) {
        $title = $titles->item(0)->nodeValue;
        echo $title;
    }

    $descs = $xpath->query("./span[@class='desc']", $art);
    if ($descs->length > 0) {
        $desc = $descs->item(0)->nodeValue;
        echo $desc;
    }
}