DOMDocument - How to get all inner text except from style/script tags? - parsing

Question

I spent so much time on a very simple thing and had to post here on StackOverflow
I want to get all inner text except the script/style tags
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$html = <<<EOD
<div>
<script>var main=0</script>
<div>
<p>my</p>
<script>var inner=0</script>
</div>
<p>text</p>
only
</div>
EOD;
$doc->loadHTML($html);
$xpath = new DOMXPath($doc);
echo $entries = $xpath->query('//*[not(self::script)]')->item(0)->nodeValue;
gives me
var main=0 my var inner=0 text only
and also tried
$entries = $xpath->query('//*[not(self::script)]');
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
if ($entry->tagName == 'style' || $entry->tagName == 'script') {
continue;
}
echo preg_replace('/\s\s+/', ' ', $entry->nodeValue);
}
gives me
var main=0 my var inner=0 text only var main=0 my var inner=0 text only var main=0 my var inner=0 text only my var inner=0mytext
I tried several xpaths but it doesn't work
my desired output is my text only
I am a Scrapy developer and I do that easily in Scrapy, but having a bad time with PHP today

Answer 1

Unfortunately, PHP doesn't support xpath 2.0 (and, IIRC, neither does Scrapy), so the name() method which would have made it easy, isn't available...
The closest thing I can think of is the following, which should get you close enough (note that, because there is no <style> tag in your $html, I only focused on <script>):
$entries = $xpath->query('//*[not(./text()/parent::script)]/text()');
foreach ($entries as $entry) {
echo trim($entry->textContent) . " ";
}
Output:
my text only