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Answer 1

A:

Make sure that you put EOD; at a line without any spaces and indentation like:

  $str = <<< EOD
  <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

EOD;

Web Logic 2010-05-25 18:43:18

That's good, the error is different!

turbod 2010-05-25 18:55:43

Answer 2

A:

You have two problems. First, name is an attribute so you need to prepend @,

$nodes = $xpath->query('/html/head/meta[@name="description"]');

Second, the nodes are all empty so there is nothing to print.

To print the attribute value, do this,

foreach($nodes as $node){
  $attr = $node->getAttribute('content');
  print $attr;
}

ZZ Coder 2010-05-25 18:59:56

Answer 3

+2 A:

You can reference the attributes using @ followed by the attribute name (see below), and you can query directly for the attributes; your XPath query was almost there.

// Look for the content attribute of description meta tags 
$contents = $xpath->query('/html/head/meta[@name="description"]/@content');

// If nothing matches the query
if ($contents->length == 0) {
    echo "No description meta tag :(";
// Found one or more descriptions, loop over them
} else {
    foreach ($contents as $content) {
        echo $content->value . PHP_EOL;
    }
}

salathe 2010-05-25 19:13:43

Thanks. This works.

turbod 2010-05-26 05:56:35

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