How can PHP beginners effectively filter out specific elements, such as IMG tags, from a webpage using Xpath queries?

To filter out specific elements like IMG tags from a webpage using Xpath queries in PHP, you can use the DOMDocument class to load the webpage's HTML content, then use the DOMXPath class to query and filter out the desired elements based on their tag name. By specifying the Xpath query to target IMG tags, you can effectively extract and manipulate only those elements from the webpage. 

// Load the webpage's HTML content
$html = file_get_contents('https://example.com');
$dom = new DOMDocument();
@$dom->loadHTML($html);

// Use XPath queries to filter out IMG tags
$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
$imgs = $xpath->query('//img');

// Loop through the filtered IMG tags
foreach ($imgs as $img) {
    // Do something with each IMG tag, such as extracting attributes or modifying content
    echo $dom->saveHTML($img);
}

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PHP Xpath queries filtering IMG tags webpage

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