XPath: how to get a text node when there are tags next to it?

Question

XPath

Hello!
I started learning XPath, a very cool thing, but it stuck out of the blue ... There is a code:

$xml = simplexml_load_string('<div>123 <br /> 456</div>');

I want to get text nodes from here - 123 and 456. So that everything is separate. I try:
$xml->xpath('//div/text()[1]')
I get the entire text :( Is it possible to get separate text nodes? Thank you!

Answer 1

$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->loadXML('<div>123 <br /> 456</div>');

$xpath = new DOMXPath($dom);
foreach ($xpath->query('//div/text()') as $textNode) {
  echo trim($textNode->nodeValue), PHP_EOL;
}

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Answer 2

XPath substring*() functions or PHP tools