Posted by nerkn on 07/06/06 07:34

un fortunatelly, the document must be valid xml file. As thinking of
most of the web masters, it is a idealistic case.

e.ahlback@gmail.com wrote:
> e.ahlb...@gmail.com wrote:
> > trihanhcie@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to extract the text in an HTML file
> > > For the moment, I'm trying to get all text between <td> and </td>. I
> > > used a regular expression because i don't know the "format between
> > > <td> and </td>
> > >
> > > It can be :
> > > <td> text1 </td>
> > > or
> > > <td>
> > > text1
> > > </td>
> > > or anything else
> > >
> > > eregi("<td(.*)>(.*)(</td>?)",$text,$regtext);
> > >
> > > The problem is that, if I have
> > > <td> text</td>
> > > <td>text2</td>
> > >
> > > regtext will return text</td><td>text2.
> > >
> > > How can I change the expression so that it stops at the first occurence
> > > of </td>?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Hi.
> >
> > Not sure, but I think this is what you want.
> > http://fi.php.net/manual/en/ref.dom.php
> > These function should be able to extract the text from any tags!
> >
> > Sorry if I'm wrong.
>
> Of course, I was wrong. Didn't notice that you were using PHP4.
> Take a look at http://fi.php.net/manual/en/ref.domxml.php instead.

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