How to remove redundant tags from HTML code using PHP?

Question

I\'m parsing some messy HTML code with PHP in which there are some redundant
tags and I would like to clean them up a bit. For instance:

&         


        

Answer 1

This should work, using minimum specifier:

preg_replace('/([\s]*){3,}/', '

', $multibreaks);

Should match appalling



constructions too.