Xpath not behaving for me in parsing basic html

Question

I am trying to parse some basic html using xpath and running into issues. The returned output is always empty using what I am reading the xpath docs to say works. Below is m

Answer 1

DOMXPath::query returns a DOMNodeList. When you are doing

foreach($result as $e){

you are iterating over the DOMElement items a DOMNodeList. DOMElement does not have an item() method. Only DOMNodeList has that. Try with

foreach($result as $e){
    echo $e->nodeValue, PHP_EOL;
}