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I'm using Symfony DomCrawler to get all text in a document.

$this->crawler->filter('p')->each(function (Crawler $node, $i) {
    // process text
});

I'm trying to gather all text within the <body> that are outside of elements. 

<body>
    This is an example
    <p>
        blablabla
    </p>
    another example
    <p>
        <span>Yo!</span>
        again, another piece of text <br/>
        with an annoy BR in the middle
    </p>
</body>

I'm using PHP Symfony and can use XPath (preferred) or RegEx.

kjhughes
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  • I don't know about Symfony DomCrawler, but XPath for getting text node that is directly within `` would be : `//body/text()` (some XPath processor doesn't support returning text node though) – har07 Jun 01 '16 at 13:23
  • Does this take into account text in nested elements? – Richard Fernandez Jun 01 '16 at 13:31
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    No. If you went them as well just add another `/` : `//body//text()` – har07 Jun 01 '16 at 13:33

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The string value of the entire document can be obtained with this simple XPath:

string(/)

All text nodes in the document would be:

//text()

The immediate text node children of body would be:

/body/text()

Note that the XPaths that select text nodes would typically be converted to concatenated string values, depending upon context.

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