How to parse HTML with regular expression?

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I have HTML document which contains many records with following format:

<tr><td>af</td><td>Afrikaans</td></tr>

Please, tell me, how can I extract "af" and "Afrikaans" using regular expression? Thank you.

[Some men just want to watch the world burn.](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags/1732454#1732454) — BoltClock, Jun 20 '12 at 10:32
the code sample suggests its html. Avoid using regex with markup languages. traverse the tree to extract the required info. — NoviceProgrammer, Jun 20 '12 at 10:34
Sorry, I'm stupid, and have made a mistake. Please, help me with code — user1445877, Jun 20 '12 at 10:36
This is a never ending discussion... Look at this topic for a similar question and solution: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11109661/how-to-get-data-between-td-elements-with-regex-and-php/11110795#11110795 — Robert, Jun 20 '12 at 10:40
please see if this helps - http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/ — NoviceProgrammer, Jun 20 '12 at 10:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 20 '12 at 10:41

This is just a simple example to get you started, but depending on the structure of the HTML you will need to make some tweaks:

$s = <<<EOM
<tr><td>af</td><td>Afrikaans</td></tr>
EOM;

$d = new DOMDocument;
$d->loadHTML($s);
foreach ($d->getElementsByTagName('td') as $node) {
    echo $node->nodeValue;
}

See also, the DOMDocument documentation

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 20 '12 at 10:47

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You should use DOM, SAX, SimpleXML, PHPQuesry, tidy instead of Regular expressions for parsing XML

answered Jun 20 '12 at 10:47

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