DOMX get values in generic DIV inside names Div

ctrenks · 09-20-2012, 01:42 AM

OK, looking to extract data from html pages, I am currently trung DOMX to get elements from the HTML code but I am stuck with this..

EXAMPLE HTML :

Code:

<html>
<body>
<div id="page">
  <div id="header">
  HEADER ..
  </div>
<div id="content">
  <div id="item1">
    <div class="spacer">
      <div class="value">STUFF I WANT</div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div id="item2">
    <div class="spacer">
      <div class="value">STUFF I DONT WANT</div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div id="item3">
    <div class="spacer">
      <div class="value">STUFF I WANT</div>
    </div>
  </div>
  <div id="item4">
    <div class="spacer">
      <div class="value">STUFF I WANT</div>
    </div>
  </div>
 </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

So with DOMX its easy to grab a named DIV content, or even a class, but having multiple divs with the same class name wont help.

I would like to grab somthing like this

Code:

$elements = $xpath->query('//*[contains(@class, \'item1\')]');

but do into the "spacer" div then into the "value" div. So I specify the named parent div then drill into two generic div's for the results I really want.

I havent found a good example of this anywhere yet

Thanks,
Chris