Posted by Toby A Inkster on 11/26/07 19:48

suzanne.boyle wrote:

> The problem with using xml is that the html is coming from Word so it
> contains a lot of unnecessary crap and isn't valid xml. And since I
> don't have much experience parsing xml in php I thought it would be
> easier to use regular expressions to extract the sections I want.

You could do worse than trying XML_HTMLSax3. I've previously posted an
example of using it to parse HTML:

http://tobyinkster.co.uk/blog/2007/07/20/html-table-parsing/

Note that it does not require documents to be well-formed XML.

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