How can DOMDocument and DOMXPath be used to manipulate text in PHP?

To manipulate text using DOMDocument and DOMXPath in PHP, you can load the HTML content into a DOMDocument object, use DOMXPath to query for specific elements containing the text you want to manipulate, and then update the text content as needed. 

<?php
// Load the HTML content into a DOMDocument object
$doc = new DOMDocument();
$doc->loadHTML($htmlContent);

// Use DOMXPath to query for specific elements containing the text you want to manipulate
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
$elements = $xpath->query('//p[contains(text(), "example")]');

// Update the text content of the selected elements
foreach ($elements as $element) {
    $element->nodeValue = str_replace('example', 'new text', $element->nodeValue);
}

// Get the updated HTML content
$updatedHtmlContent = $doc->saveHTML();
?>

Keywords

DOMDocument DOMXPath text manipulation PHP XML parsing

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