Wrap unwrapped text in

Question

Example:

<div>foo</div>
<p>bar</p>
Unwrapped text

What i want:

<div>foo</div>
<p>bar</p>
<span>Unwrapped text</span>

How to achieve this without relying on new lines?

First you must define what you mean with "wrap" text. Because all the code should be wrapped, at least, with tags. Second, what do you mean without relying on new lines? Third and last, why is this tagged under php/regex? If you actually want some php code, can you show us what you have tried already please? — Francisco Presencia, Apr 10 '12 at 03:23
The usual comment for people who want to parse html using regular expressions: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454 — Basti, Apr 10 '12 at 03:38

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 22 '16 at 15:29

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I would not use regular expressions for html.

You can do it with phpQuery

$doc = phpQuery::newDocument($html);
$doc->contents()->not($doc->children())->wrap("<span>");
$html = $doc->html();

Didn't try it though.

edited Sep 22 '16 at 15:29

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answered Apr 10 '12 at 03:55

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 10 '12 at 03:45

Extract tokens from your string like for example: <div>, foo, </div>, <p>, bar, </p>, Unwrapped text. You can do this with regular expressions. Then

for each token do
    if token is opening tag
        push token on stack
    else if token is closing tag (and matching opening tag is ontop of stack)
        pop token from stack
    else if token is text and stack is not empty
        ignore token (continue)
    else if token is text and stack is empty
        wrap token with <span>

This will work for arbitrary nested XML-strings.

Wrap unwrapped text in

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