In search of a span of class.

[Paul Lautman]

Within a subsection of an HTML document (not a complete page), there will be
a few spans with the class "room_headings"
e.g.
<span class="room_headings" Double
Room</span>

Can folks suggest some nice ways of extracting all the text contents of such
spans into a list (for use in a drop-down select list)?

TIA

[R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah]

Paul Lautman wrote:

Within a subsection of an HTML document (not a complete page), there will be
a few spans with the class "room_headings"
e.g.
<span class="room_headings" Double
Room</span>

Can folks suggest some nice ways of extracting all the text contents of such
spans into a list (for use in a drop-down select list)?

XPath can be used if the contents are valid XML:
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement( '<foo><span
class="room_headings">DoubleRoom</span<span
class="room_headings">DoubleRoom</span><span
class="room_headings1">DoubleRoom</span></foo>');
print_r($xml->xpath('//span[@class="room_headings"]'));

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[Paul Lautman]

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah wrote:

Paul Lautman wrote:

>Within a subsection of an HTML document (not a complete page), there
will be a few spans with the class "room_headings"
e.g.
<span class="room_headings" Double
Room</span>

Can folks suggest some nice ways of extracting all the text contents
of such spans into a list (for use in a drop-down select list)?

XPath can be used if the contents are valid XML:
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement( '<foo><span
class="room_headings">DoubleRoom</span<span
class="room_headings">DoubleRoom</span><span
class="room_headings1">DoubleRoom</span></foo>');
print_r($xml->xpath('//span[@class="room_headings"]'));

Sadly I doubt that they are valid XML. They are a middle section of an HTML
page. The normal HTML page header tags will not be present either.

I was wondering if there was a good preg call that could accomplish it?

[Rik]

Paul Lautman wrote:

Within a subsection of an HTML document (not a complete page), there will be
a few spans with the class "room_headings"
e.g.
<span class="room_headings" Double
Room</span>

Can folks suggest some nice ways of extracting all the text contents of such
spans into a list (for use in a drop-down select list)?

preg_match_all('|<span[^>]*?class="room_headings"[^>]*?>(.*?)</span>|si',$html,$matches,
PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
print_r($matches[1]);

Grtz,
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Rik Wasmus

[Paul Lautman]

Rik wrote:

Paul Lautman wrote:

>Within a subsection of an HTML document (not a complete page), there
will be a few spans with the class "room_headings"
e.g.
<span class="room_headings" Double
Room</span>

Can folks suggest some nice ways of extracting all the text contents
of such spans into a list (for use in a drop-down select list)?

preg_match_all('|<span[^>]*?class="room_headings"[^>]*?>(.*?)</span>|si',$html,$matches,
PREG_PATTERN_ORDER);
print_r($matches[1]);

Grtz,

That's great, thanks Rik