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;
    }
}

Answer 2

Instead of doing the second query try textContent

foreach ($arts as $art) {
    echo $art->textContent;
}

textContent returns the text content of this node and its descendants.

As an alternative, change the XPath to

$expression="//div[@class='thebest']/span[@class='title' or @class='desc']";
$arts = $xpath->query($expression);

foreach ($arts as $art) {
    echo $art->nodeValue;
}

That would fetch the span children of the divs with a class thebest having a class of title or desc.