I am using XPath in PHP to retrieve part of an HTML document. Assume that my HTML document looked like this:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<div id="first">
<a href="some_link_address.com">Hello</a>
<p>Some text here</p>
</div>
<div id="second">
<p>Some other text here</p>
<img src="src/to/image.jpg" />
</div>
</body>
</html>
And my PHP including the XPath call is:
$result_dom = new DOMDocument('1.0', 'utf-8');
$node_to_keep = $xpath->query("//div[@id='first']");
foreach ($nodes_to_keep as $node) {
$element = $result_dom->createElement('div', $node->nodeValue;);
$result_dom ->appendChild($element);
}
I was expecting that the resulting dom will contain the following
<div>
<a href="some_link_address.com">Hello</a>
<p>Some text here</p>
</div>
However this is the resulting dom
<div>
Hello
Some text here
</div>
So my question is, how do I set the resulting dom to contain the html tags. I do not want them removed
Thanks.