Getting node's text in PHP DOM?

So long as you can affect the DOM, you could remove that span.

So long as you can affect the DOM, you could remove that span. $span = $div->getElementsByTagName('span')->item(0); $div->removeChild($span); $nodeValue = $div->nodeValue; Alternatively, just access the text node of $div. Foreach($div->childNodes as $node) { if ($node->nodeType!

= XML_TEXT_NODE) { continue; } $nodeValue = $node; } If you end up with more text nodes and only want the first, you can break after the first assignment of $nodeValue.

You can access DOMText node directly using XPath: $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom_document); $node = $xpath->query('//div/text()')->item(0); echo $node->textContent; // text.

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