PHP regular expression to parse HTML in a specific way

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I have the following HTML:

<Text><strong>Cancellation</strong>
A cancellation is free of charge possible until 6PM on arrival day. With later    cancellation or no arrivals without previous cancellation the hotel is justified to place 90% of the booked achievements (excl. breakfast) in calculation whereby the amount at a value of USD 500.00 is not exceeded.
<strong>Check-in time</strong>
Starting from 15:00
<strong>Check-out time</strong>
Until 12:00
<strong>Guarantee</strong>
No guarantee required.</Text>

and I want to parse it and store in an array for example like this:

array(
 'Cancelation'    => 'A cancellation is free of charge possible until 6PM on arrival day. With later    cancellation or no arrivals without previous cancellation the hotel is justified to place 90% of the booked achievements (excl. breakfast) in calculation whereby the amount at a value of USD 500.00 is not exceeded.',
 'Check-in time'  => 'Starting from 15:00',
 'Check-out time' => 'Until 12:00',
 'Guarantee'      => 'No guarantee required.'
);

Thank you for the hints in advance.

well, give us a hint of what you tried and then we'll hint a fix why it's not working. — tradyblix, Oct 18 '12 at 08:43
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags — jantimon, Oct 18 '12 at 08:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 18 '12 at 08:47

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Read this tutorial, no need to use hungry regex engine.

answered Oct 18 '12 at 08:47

Bud Damyanov

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I'm trying to load the XML in a Dom object but after that I'm not able to parse the content of all tags and the text between them. – user1755641 Oct 18 '12 at 08:50
@user1755641 Make your HTML/XML valid. Then, parse all the `strong` tags, and the text in between... – Hidde Oct 18 '12 at 08:53
Agreed with @Hidde, if your HTML is generated dynamically, then consider to rework it`s generation procedure. – Bud Damyanov Oct 18 '12 at 08:57

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 18 '12 at 08:43

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Add the valid HTML into a DOMElement object. With it you can select children and extract their HTML/text into variables.

Docs: http://php.net/manual/en/class.domelement.php

answered Oct 18 '12 at 08:43

Hidde

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That only works with valid html. Which this clearly isn't. – Dennis Haarbrink Oct 18 '12 at 08:44
Well, the input html is still invalid. So your solution won't work. – Dennis Haarbrink Oct 18 '12 at 08:45
I am offering a solution for the situation where he structures the data like he should. Then, this will work, and is a lot nicer than REGEX parsing. – Hidde Oct 18 '12 at 08:48
I am saying he needs to EDIT his HTML/XML, which he should anyway, and then solve his problem! – Hidde Oct 18 '12 at 08:52
I'm not able to edit the xml/html I receive it in this way from another system. – user1755641 Oct 18 '12 at 08:55
Chill dude. No one is criticising you. – itachi Oct 18 '12 at 08:55
Yeah, I know that, but I think too many people are whining about the invalid HTML/XML, which is not my problem. – Hidde Oct 18 '12 at 08:57

PHP regular expression to parse HTML in a specific way

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