How to parse HTML with PHP?

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Hello,

What is the faster and easy HTML parser for PHP 5?

Thank you

The answer to this question is usually dont, so if you let us all know why we may be able to make suggestions. — Toby Allen, Feb 13 '11 at 22:46

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '11 at 22:46

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if its valid xhtml, you can do this with the SimpleXML built-in library afaik

but as people mentioned, why would you want to parse it? Are you sure you dont want to search for stuff instead?

answered Feb 13 '11 at 22:46

Jan Dragsbaek

yup, xhtml is valid xml and is parseable by an xml library. – Femaref Feb 13 '11 at 22:46
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uh? HTML parsing is a perfectly valid task. And if you mean searching with XPath, then the HTML has to be parsed before too... – Felix Kling Feb 13 '11 at 22:48
i was thinking about regex searches, like scanning for links :) – Jan Dragsbaek Feb 13 '11 at 22:49
@Femaref: Good luck finding valid XHTML to parse though. It has been said for years that unless you *totally* control the content (i.e., no user-supplied comments or anything like that) and are willing to be anal about XML validity, XHTML is not a practical option. – Jon Feb 13 '11 at 22:50

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