How can SimpleXML or DOM be used to parse HTML tables in PHP?

To parse HTML tables in PHP using SimpleXML or DOM, you can first load the HTML content into a SimpleXML object or a DOMDocument object. Then, you can navigate through the HTML structure to locate the table elements and extract the data within them. This can be done by looping through the rows and cells of the table and extracting the content as needed. 

$html = file_get_contents('example.html');

// Using SimpleXML
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($html);
$table = $xml->xpath('//table')[0];

foreach ($table->tr as $row) {
    foreach ($row->td as $cell) {
        echo $cell . "<br>";
    }
}

// Using DOM
$dom = new DOMDocument();
$dom->loadHTML($html);
$table = $dom->getElementsByTagName('table')[0];

foreach ($table->getElementsByTagName('tr') as $row) {
    foreach ($row->getElementsByTagName('td') as $cell) {
        echo $cell->nodeValue . "<br>";
    }
}

Keywords

SimpleXML DOM HTML tables parsing PHP

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